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Good-Bye to All That is a 1929 autobiography by writer Robert Graves. In the book, Graves explains that his father, though a poet and songwriter himself, did not attempt to influence Graves’s writing style:

Which quotation from Good-Bye to All That most effectively illustrates the claim?

A

“[My father] has more than once impressed on me almost religiously never to sell for a sum down the complete rights of any work of mine whatsoever.”

B

“[My father] never once tried to teach me how to write; he was always more ready to ask advice about his own work than to offer it for mine.”

C

“Some of [my father’s] songs I sing without prejudice; when washing up after meals or shelling peas or on similar occasions.”

D

“I am glad in a way that my father was a poet. This at least saved me from any false reverence of poets.”