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In real life people who encountered him often thought he was the most interesting person they’d ever met. She decided against media training—or anything that might make Sam seem less like Sam.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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carlton smith • 9 cards
The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific). With Jordan Belsen, the filmmaker, he
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
“Willy was a salesman,” says Charley at the climax of the play. “He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.”
— Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations expanded edition by Mark Steyn
Regarding Willy Loman in Death of a Salesm
... See more"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."
Because, in the end, it really doesn’t matter that much. Because, in the end, it’s just creativity. Or, as John Lennon once said about the Beatles, “We were just a band!”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The sense of the miracle of humanity itself should be always more vivid to us than any marvels of power, intellect, art, or civilization. The mere man on two legs, as such, should be felt as something more heartbreaking than any music and more startling than any caricature. Death is more tragic even than death by starvation. Having a nose is more c
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Trust the value of your personal experiences, even when others might trivialize them, recognizing that all human experiences contain both dignity and absurdity, and no single expression can fully capture their complexity.
Mark Frauenfelder • Book Freak 164: A Life of One's Own
The writer was fearless. The writer was such a lover of truth that he would expose himself to any amount of pain in order to add to his store of truth. He was superior to Unk and Stony. He watched and recorded their subversive activities with love, amusement, and detachment.