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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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