If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs but lose it when they keep theirs,
If you love what you do and then hate what you do,
If you think you created something beautiful only for a moment later to say, “Oh, my god, what have I done? This is utter shit.”
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If you think your work is utterly useless yet essential,
If you can dream and six years later or even more, you have something but can’t remember what that dream was,
If you can meet both Triumph and Disaster and it’s just the first sentence,
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Yours is a tough life and, which is worse, you just might be a novelist, my son.

