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Museum of Serial Killers, in Florence.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
President Roosevelt remarked that King was so tough that he shaved with a blowtorch and trimmed his toenails with torpedo net cutters.10 His intelligence, energy, and organizational abilities won the respect of all those who worked with him; unlike his Army counterpart, George C. Marshall, however, he never gained their reverence or affection.
Eliot A. Cohen • Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
Hollywood studios were filled with a “strange conglomeration of a few excellent overtired men making the pictures and as dismal a crowd of fakes and hacks at the bottom as you can imagine.” The consequence, Scott said, “is that every other man is a charlatan, nobody trusts anybody else, and an infinite amount of time is wasted from lack of confiden
... See moreA. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
For the unprepared, meeting John Neff can be a "disaster." Those who meet Neff's standards appreciate thatJohn answers his own phone ("Neff!"), and he always gives as good as he gets, or better, in both information and insight. Neff's rigorous discipline in "doing his homework" has one important consequence: His portfo
... See moreJohn Neff • John Neff on Investing
Tenet began pushing aggressively to bulk up the CIA’s paramilitary teams in Afghanistan, and he sold the White House on a program to capture terrorists, hide them in secret jails, and subject them to an Orwellian regimen of brutal interrogation methods.
Mark Mazzetti • The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Quant à Morel... Tout a été dit là-dessus. Je crois que c'était un homme qui, dans la solitude, était allé encore plus loin que les autres – véritable exploit, soit dit en passant, car lorsqu'il s'agit de battre des records de solitude, chacun de nous se découvre une âme de champion. Il vient souvent me retrouver, pendant mes nuits d'insomnie, avec
... See moreRomain Gary • Les racines du ciel (French Edition)
After seeing Rosselli at his house, I asked Mr. S if Giancana had leaned on Rosselli to lean on Cohn to give him the part in From Here to Eternity, and he gave me a Cheshire-cat grin. “Hey, I got that part through my own fucking talent,” he said. And then he gave me a wink.
George Jacobs • Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
nob agreed to the proposition. But a day later, Ross changed his mind: “can you change the order to execute rather than torture?”
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
thirty minutes of disturbing images presented with artificial urgency and the usually false implication that it’s critical for you to see it.)