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Quote wall: Raymond Carver

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > It is his world and no other. —Raymond Carver, in the New York Times [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.

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Quote wall: Ben Gibbard

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > There’s that saying: You spend your 20s thinking everybody’s talking about you, you spend your 30s wondering why

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Quote wall: Colum McCann

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > A first line should open up your rib cage. It should reach in and twist your heart backward. It should

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Quote wall: M. Night Shyamalan

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Failure is very cleansing, and success is very confusing. —M. Night Shyamalan, in Vulture [https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/

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Quote wall: Kazuo Ishiguro

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > ...a feeling that someone or other disapproved of me, and was only just managing to conceal it. Curiously, these moments

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Quote wall: Brian Eno

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > ...I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning,

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Quote wall: Ted Lasso

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Be curious, not judgmental. —Misattributed to Walt Whitman [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/be-curious-not-judgmental-walt-whitman/], by way of Ted Lasso If

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Quote wall: Issa Rae

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I make excellent mistakes. —Issa Rae, on Twitter [https://twitter.com/issarae/status/890737011983736833?lang=en] There are probably many

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Quote wall: E.B. White

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I must decline, for secret reasons. —E.B. White, in a reply to an invitation to join the Committee of

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Quote wall: Colum McCann

On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Just keep your arse in the chair. Arse in the chair. Arse in the chair. —Colum McCann, Letters to a