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Beryl Markham: I could never...

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I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Source: West With the Night, I941.
-- Beryl Markham, (Oct 26 1902-1986), English aviator; She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic east to west, 1936; wrote memoirs in West With the Night, reissued 1983.


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