Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,…

John Steinbeck
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ✨ John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). Conversations with John Steinbeck, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ✨ John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). Conversations with John Steinbeck, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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