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“We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.”
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“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
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“I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.”
Source : "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009. 
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“I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.”
Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
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“The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'”
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“I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.”
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“Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.”
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“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.”
Source : "The Best Advice Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Ever Received" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. January 13, 2013.
