“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart—to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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