John Ziegler, who is a talk-radio host of unflagging industry, broad general knowledge, mordant wit, and extreme conviction, makes a particular specialty of media criticism.
~ David Foster Wallace
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I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
~ David Foster Wallace
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
~ Francesco Petrarca
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~ John le Carré
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.
~ John Ruskin
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
~ Dorothy Catherine Fontana
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Ten o’clock to one qualifies as late at night in southern California, where hardly anything reputable’s open after nine.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great