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Pat Cummings
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Biology, they said. You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it. She’d watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were.
“That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.”
― The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
― The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“An iron plow instead of wood meant you lived past thirty. It changed more than the depth of a furrow.”
― The Far Arena
― The Far Arena
“I was too rich to get honesty and too poor to change the order of the Roman world.”
― The Far Arena
― The Far Arena
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