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If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.

Robert Greene

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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Norwich
Norfolk
Writing
Finance
Trying
Holes
Going
Round
Work
Rounds
Peg
Something
Miserable
Banking
Never
Fit
Square
Like
Meant
Squares
Ends
Hole

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