“If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.”

—  Jack McDevitt

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 5 (p. 54)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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