“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

Jona Senilagakali (1929–2011) Prime Minister of Fiji

in a December 6, 2006 interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

“We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

Everything About It Is a Love Song
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Context: We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.
And then it's "Oh, I'm sorry."
Here's a smiling photograph
Of love when it was new.
At a birthday party.
Make a wish and close your eyes:
Surprise, surprise, surprise.