Arthur C. Clarke book The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 294
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”
— Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
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