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struggling with two quotations
it is well known that when two or three authors meet they at once start talking about money like everyone else

i am dizzy with boredom with discouragement with fatigue i have spent four hours without being able to write one sentence i haven't written a line today or rather i have scribbled a hundred what an atrocious job oh art art what is this mad chimera which eats up ones heart and why

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This is an extract from yourdictionary.com. Hope it helps.

It is well known that, when two or three authors meet, they at once start talking about money like everyone else.

-Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)
In The Author, Spring.