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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Mahatma Gandhi</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Mahatma Gandhi</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— —George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite> | |||
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Revision as of 14:04, 24 September 2009
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Source.
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