An idea to be commonplace

Penelope FitzgeraldPenelope Fitzgerald17 Dec 1916

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't b...
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Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize–winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final nov…

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