Dashiell HammettI found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
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I enjoyed style, the way I dressed, the way I acted. It was a pleasure to look at me and it felt good to be seen. However, after a while, I began to realize that I was repeating myself. The more I tried to be creative and original, the more I felt like a copycat.
Every time I did something new, it was always too similar to what had come before. That was when the realization came that the best creative work comes from people who are original and daring and not from people who are so afraid of losing their own identity that they refuse to do anything differently than what has already been done.
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