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“Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance
“The best things on television are its junk, and no one and nothing is seriously threatened by it. Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is what intellectuals and critics are constantly urging television to do.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
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“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
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