Quarter of the way through Steve Martin's
Born Standing Up there are already so many wonderful demonstrations of his skill with words, but this one serves as a good example, for making me laugh out loud.
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I held my first copy and solemnly turned the pages, reading each sentence so slowly that it’s a miracle I could remember what the verb was
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and one more, insight with a smile
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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