“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a
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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
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“ONLY ONE THING CAME CLOSE to matching the fear of teenagers in the 1950s and that was of course Communism.”
― The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
― The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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