“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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