Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. ✨ An…

Anne Lamott
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.182, Anchor
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