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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

John Steinbeck
Prayer, Magic, Suffering
John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.