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Cinema Speculation: An Entertaining Dive into Film History from the Legendary Writer and Director

by Quentin Tarantino

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The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes

by Margaret Mark

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The Four Conversations: A New Model for Selling Expertise

by Blair Enns

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“Afraid of losing her, we forget all the others. Sure of keeping her, we compare her with those others whom at once we prefer to her.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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“If prostitutes ... attract us so little, it is not because they are less beautiful than other women, but because they are ready and waiting; because they already offer us precisely what we seek to attain.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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“Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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“A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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“Certainly travelers had returned from the heart and tried to represent what they had seen, but love was in the end like a species of rare colored butterfly, often sighted, but rarely conclusively identified.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

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