"An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined."

-- John Ralston Saul

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“I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.”
“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.”

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“I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.”
“I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.”
“No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?”
“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”
“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”
“Live to fight on other days.”

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