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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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