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“When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had bee...”
“When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months afte...”
“One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)”
“You cant just come out and say what you have to say. Thats what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the p...”
“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.”
“You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the...”
