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“Hold hands with the devil until you are both over the bridge.
Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you.”
― Now I Rise
Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you.”
― Now I Rise
“No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
― MY STEVE
― MY STEVE
“The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“If you decide you don’t have to get A’s, you can learn an enormous amount in college.”
― My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
― My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
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