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I came to the conclusion
that Lord of the Rings
was, most probably, the best book
that ever could be written, which
put me in something of a quandary.
I wanted to be a writer when I grew up.
(That’s not true: I wanted to be a writer then.)
And I wanted to write The Lord of the Rings.
The problem was that it had already been written.
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