“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
Gene Fowler (1890–1960) American journalist
Quoted in H. Allen Smith's The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler (1977); as cited by Paul Dickson (1990), The New Official Rules, p. 74
“Nature is never finished.”
Cultural Confinement, 1972
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