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Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon Quotes: How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
         

How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?


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