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Not being a real journalist—at least I did not consider myself one—I dreaded the prospect of covering the DPRK alongside so many veterans, until I realized how little they knew of North Korea, and how little they managed to find out. A ...more
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Heh. Y, journalism experience doesn’t compensate much for unavoidable ignorance.
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Rorke Denver
“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”
Rorke Denver, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

Julian Fellowes
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
Julian Fellowes

Barbara Kingsolver
“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

Anne Tyler
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
Anne Tyler

Cathy O'Neil
“At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy.”
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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