Long patience and application ...

Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.
 Jim Tully

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The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.
 Jim Tully