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“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (18821950)
“I hate to bring up a subject that may cause you to break out in hives, I said, but what were you thinking of paying me for each of these columns?
We were thinking of something in the high two figures, Navasky said.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)
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