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“My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.”
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“In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.”
Source : New York Times, February 2, 1986.
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“Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.”
Source : "Strategies for productivity: international perspectives". Book by Nihon Seisansei Honbu, p. 124, 1984.
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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
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“You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.”
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“I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.”
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“In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.”
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“But... we will always be drawn together. We'll always crave each other. We'll always be in tune with each other, physically and mentally. There is nothing that can change or break that. And even if there was, I wouldn't want to. Not for the world.”
Source : Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.40, Kiss Me Publications, LLC