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  1. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.
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  2. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
    book-quoteinsightfulgolf

  3. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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  4. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.
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  5. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Chance favors the connected mind."
    book-quoteinsightfulinternetinnovation

  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ My Man Jeeves

    ...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
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  7. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ Hear the Wind Sing

    There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
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  9. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or about the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes. he had Orr's word to take for Appleby's eyes.
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