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Sunday, 8 April 2012

Wilde Abandon

"Books are never finished, they are merely abandoned."

~ Oscar Wilde

7 comments:

  1. I'm able to abandon a novel in just a few sentences.

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  2. It is a great quote, but I don't think it's one of Oscar's!

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  3. Oh, that's interesting. Every source I can find says it's his.

    If it's not, any idea who did say it?

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  4. That's the trouble with the internet, isn't it? I've seen the quote attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, even, but in fact I believe it originated with Paul Valéry, and was rendered in the pithy form we know today by George Lucas. Sorry, I know Oscar would be more respectable :)

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  5. But not necessarily more right. ;-)

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