Carolina QuotesScrewing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in: N.M. Kelby (2009) The Constant Art of Being a Writer, p. 102
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