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A much needed book for a world fueled on scoring systems defined / imposed by institutions and bureaucracies. Perhaps ten years too late after social media was created.
I stumbled on Nguyen's writing from his previous book about game design based on g ...more "
The things I observed over the course of my childhood taught me that things were not always going to go my way. But I also figured out, in the end, that didn’t really matter. What mattered—what still matters today—is what happens next. What
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“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
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“......cut us off from our families, our history. So we made it our own place - Chinatown. A place for preservation and self-preservation; give them what they feel what's right, is safe; make it fit the idea of what is out there..Chinatown and indeed being chinese is and always has been, from the very beginning a construction,a performance of features, gestures, culture and exoticism, invention/reinvention of stylization.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
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“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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