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| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 3267 |
| AUTHOR: | Tom Wolfe |
| QUOTATION: | What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Right Stuff Farrar, Straus & Giroux 79 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Science |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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