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“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”
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“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.
This is how you lose her.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
This is how you lose her.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
“Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.”
― When She Was Good
― When She Was Good
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
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