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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you鈥檝e done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, 鈥淏ye. I have to go. I鈥檓 going crazy and I鈥檓 getting out of here.鈥 And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”
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“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones

“Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby鈥檚 Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: 鈥淪tory is our only boat for sailing on the river of time,鈥 and she鈥檚 right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go.”
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“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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