“How much did I miss, out of haste, intensity, and anger? How much would I come to wish that I had learned about a quieter kind of effort and persistence earlier on, about winning for myself instead of proving myself… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“On our flight back from Arizona where we adopted our daughter three years after our ungreen one-headed son a stewardess ... paused to to… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“How much did I miss, out of haste, intensity, and anger? How much would I come to wish that I had learned about a… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“Not seeking acknowledgment for things done well but finding satisfaction in doing them well.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“Do you want justice--do you want to SHOW THEM--or do you want to achieve your goal? ... In business, for people who want to… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“I know very few people who have grown all the way up. The best most of us can do is manage intermittent maturity.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“Publishing, I learn later, is a little like the garment industry: You have to be geographically well placed, in New York, for schmoozing convenience.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“God--if by God the agnostic means precision, clarity, genuine feeling, accuracy--is in the details only when the writer (or speaker, for that matter) knows… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
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