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“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.”
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“Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.”
Source : James Gleick (2011). “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”, p.12, HarperCollins UK
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“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”
Source : Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.32, Vintage
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“What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.”
Source : Gaston Bachelard's epigraph to Seamus Heaney "An Open Letter", 1983.
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“I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.”
Source : Ben Lerner (2011). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.158, Coffee House Press
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“The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.”
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“I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.”
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“Only one music comes out of me.”
