"When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time."

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Source : Arthur Ransome (2012). “Swallowdale”, p.128, Random House

Arthur Ransome

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“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”
“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
“I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.”

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“People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.”
“Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
“Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.328, Courier Corporation
“I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.”
“I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.”

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