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“... since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.”
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“There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.”
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“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”
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“This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' — like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap — and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.”
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“She imposes a high standard of conduct upon herself and wears it instead of jewelry.”
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“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, — no doubt we are, — but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.”
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“Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.”
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“Old men make wars. Young men fight them, and the lines of the young dead reach from earth to the gates of hell.”