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It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. it's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.
-John D. MacDonald
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It's No Good Telling Somebody They're Trying

John D. MacDonald
It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. it's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.
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Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since i was a boy and my mother read kipling's the elephant's child to me. it was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
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And then he drew a dial from his poke, and looking with lack-lustre eye, says very wisely, 'it is ten o'clock: thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more 'twill be eleven; and so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot.
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