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Along with the peasant in the novelist, there must be a man with a whip. Drivenness is trouble for both the novelist and his friends, but no novelist, I think, can succeed without it.
John Gardner
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
July 21, 1933
Died:
September 14, 1982
(aged 49)
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