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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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“A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.”
― The Ghost
― The Ghost
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
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“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”
― The Ghost
― The Ghost
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
― Number9Dream
― Number9Dream
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