![As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-a-rule-with-me-an-unfinished-idea-is-a-thing-that-might-as-well-be-rubbed-o.jpg)
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