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“It’s the end of civilization as we know it. And it’s going to be great for business.”
“The pie is meant to be the marriage, and a true marriage has in it many sorts of things—joy and grief, pain and pleasure, love and lust and loyalty. So it is fitting that there be birds of many sorts. No man ever truly knows what a new wife will bring him.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”
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“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
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“Fred Bailey, a young black runaway, changed his last name to Douglass in honor of Scott’s epic poem The Lady of the Lake. The hero of the epic was Lord James of Douglas, who was willing to give up his life to avert a bloody civil war between highlanders and lowlanders. Bailey’s black benefactor, Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, suggested adding an extra s for good measure. Bailey would now be known as Frederick Douglass.”
― America Aflame
― America Aflame
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