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Brightness Reef (1995)
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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
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It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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October 6, 1950
(age 74)
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