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  • Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

    "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.