Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a … - Aleksandar Hemon

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Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Aleksandar Hemon

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

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Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

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The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

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The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

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Where we are from. . . [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

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Dave Barry

I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. " His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

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Ruth Benedict

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

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Greg Behrendt

It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get, and please don't settle for less. These guys exist because there are a lot of women out there who allow them to.

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Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

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