"There may be some writers who contemplate a day's work without dread, but I don't know them. Becket had, tacked to the wall beside his desk, a card on which were written the words: 'Fail. Fail again. Fail better.'" --Mary Gordon, Putting Pen to Paper, but Not Just Any Pen or Just Any Paper
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April 27, 2004
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