“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
“The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological terms.”
Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 2 (p. 21)
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