"Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
“Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.”
“Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.”
“A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.”
“If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.”
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press
“Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.”

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