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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 24, 2015 02:39PM

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

tags: clichés, double-standards, feminism, gender, history, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, prejudice, slander, social-norms, stereotypes, truth, women

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“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

tags: loss

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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

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