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"It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, how..." — Michael Korda
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
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