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“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― The Persian Boy
― The Persian Boy
“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
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“Anyone reading this book will take in as much information today as Shakespeare took in over a lifetime. Researchers in the new field of interruption science have found that it takes an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from a phone call. Yet such interruptions come every eleven minutes—which means we’re never caught up with our lives.”
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated — it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.”
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“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
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