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- I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;…
- Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
- to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge…
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
- Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not…
- Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
- One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
- The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
- We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were…
- Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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