Patrick O'Brian quote

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Born: Dec 12, 1914
Died: Jan 2, 2000

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