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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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