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I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?
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Chapter 2 (p. 22)

 

Murray Leinster

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“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting. Without missing a beat, Donald replied, “Because Samuel Beckett was already writing the way he does.”
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