In grateful memory of Winston Graham.
The final page of Winston Graham's Autobiography.
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Perfection is a full stop.
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.
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"Perfection is a full stop .... Ever the climbing but never the attaining Of the mountain top." W.G.