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Subject:Re: Request for writing quotes From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 8 Oct 1993 15:55:16 CDT
|} From: Vicki Rosenzweig <murphy!acmcr!vr -at- uunet -dot- uu -dot- net>
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|} I'm not sure if this is for tech writers, but I saw it on
|} a button recently, and figured I'd share it:
|}
|} It is better to write for yourself and not have a public
|} than to write for the public and not have a self.
|}
|} Unfortunately, I have no idea who I'm quoting.
|}
|} Vicki Rosenzweig
Fortunately, I do. It's Cyril Connolly, From the New Statesman, 25 Feb. 1933
Oh yeah, check out my .sig too. Makes the engineers shudder!
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