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— Ben Jonson"If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new."
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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
— Mark Twain
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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.
— Flannery O'Connor
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