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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port-of-Spain
Unhappy
Ahead
Convinced
Finally
Simply
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