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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and ‘fall into a vortex’, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

— Louisa May Alcott

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From Chapter TWENTY-SEVEN of Little Women. This is fictional dialogue or narration; its meaning depends on the surrounding scene, not on treating it as the author’s personal advice.

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