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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

I never set out to be a published writer.

I never intended to become a writer.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

There are no ordinary moments.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.