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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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