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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
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I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
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I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as…
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should…
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that…
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more…
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely…
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the…
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They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they…
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And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
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Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are…
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Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as…
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But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,…
— Marisha Pessl
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Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on…
— Edith Schaeffer
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The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to…
— Justina Chen
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As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you…
— John Green
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