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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
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Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
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The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
