All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
Theodore ZeldinTo idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.
Theodore ZeldinTwo individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
Theodore Zeldin