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thank you

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I've never really expected

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to find myself giving advice to people graduating

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from an establishment of higher education.

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I've never graduated from any such establishment.

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I've not even started at one. I escaped from school as soon as I

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could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced

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learning before I'd become the writer I wanted to be

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seems stifling. I got out into the world,

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I wrote till I became a better writer the more I wrote,

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and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making

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it all up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they me paid for it,

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or they didn't, and often they