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William Deresiewicz

"Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person."

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

William Deresiewicz

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“Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.”
“It's such a pleasure to write down splendid wordsâ€”almost as though one were inventing them.”
“The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.”
“I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.”
“We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.”
“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.”
“Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.”
“Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,”

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