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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
Fabula
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