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We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of…
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As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies…
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Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among…
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Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your…
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And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed.…
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It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft…
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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for…
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
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To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
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I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life.…
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There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether…
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up…
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Big ideas are usually simple ideas.
— David Ogilvy
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Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be…
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It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have…
— Unknown Author
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I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
— Matt Mullenweg
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