Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Wales to the Miami Herald, "Will Wikipedia change history?" http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/15328352.htm
“It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.”
Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Context: It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
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Page 87.
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I agree with all of them.
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As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variant: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
