Rain comments on Rationality Quotes November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rain 30 November 2009 03:08:20AM * 9 points [-]

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

Comment author: gwern 30 November 2009 02:50:10PM 3 points [-]

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

--W. Somerset Maughan, "The Creative Impulse" (1926)