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Book cover for One Hundred Years of Betty
Something unendurable happens, after which it is impossible to go on, and then people go on. Well, most do. When one of us shatters into a thousand pieces, that seems the natural response to tragedy. But usually, even then, we eventually ...more
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Frederick Buechner
“Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business . . . even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought . . . unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy . . . What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than being able from time to time to stop that chatter . . . ”
Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets: A Celebrated Author's Candid Memoir of a Father's Suicide and Its Influence on a Son and Minister

Walter Isaacson
“The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,”
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Zadie Smith
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
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Patrick Lencioni
“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”
Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Walter Isaacson
“Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker’s code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in their own expansion cards or jack into the motherboard to add their own new functions; and it took special tools just to open the plastic case. It was a closed and controlled system, like something designed by Big Brother rather than by a hacker.”
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

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