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Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
Winston Graham
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Winston Graham
Age: 93 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 30
Died: 2003
Died: July 10
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Manchester
England
Winston Mawdsley Graham
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Immediate
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Imperfect
Ever
Climbing
Comma
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Reaching
Attaining
Never
Strive
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Mountain
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