“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.”
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Cyril Connolly
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Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136)
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