You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual …

Carl Hiaasen
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ✨ He's all the rage. Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ✨ He's all the rage. Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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