In order to be a better writer, you should not throw away a bit of work after giving it up

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Much of what C.S. Lewis thinks to be his own best work is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier 0 0 1

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In order to be a better writer, you should not throw away a bit of work after giving it up 0 0 1

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