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A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard — by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off.

Archibald MacLeish

05/15/13

film-dot-com:

TRAILER: ARI FOLMAN’S “THE CONGRESS.”

so that’s what a perfect trailer looks like.

sight unseen, Ari Folman’s follow-up to “Waltz With Bashir” might be the most exciting film at Cannes, this year.

05/14/13

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From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

05/14/13

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After a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

05/12/13

Yoda on what's here now

Luke Skywalker: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hm?

05/11/13

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We were making the future,” he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes

05/11/13

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The challenge of communication isn’t to never miscommunicate, it’s to cut down the time between the interaction and the realization that the communication didn’t get through. Because the sooner we know we’re not connecting, the sooner we can fix it.

Seth Godin

05/10/13

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If we thought the success of our investment depended on them taking our advice, we’d move on.

Charles Munger

05/10/13

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher of Athens, Disciple of Socrates, 445-365 BC

05/10/13

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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Robert Jordan, The Great Hun

05/9/13

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Yoda on what's here now

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