All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
(Letter to Bruce Rogers, 1931)
T. E. Lawrence
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands... and wrote my will across the sky in stars.
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