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she recommended becoming a published author to all people with drinking problems. A writer can blunder through life like Norman Mailer with his “tiny fist” striking out at cocktail parties, and all anyone will think is that he is a classical drunk writer. If he did something like that and worked at P.I.P., one of the musclebound stock boys would
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Page was not a social animal—people who talked to him often wondered if there were a jigger of Asperger’s in the mix—and could unnerve people by simply not talking.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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I had to pull myself together and care more.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Shards: A novel
Spotlight on fame, pressure and mental health after Liam Payne's death | The Express Tribune
Brian went out for the freshman football team in September, but quit after one day after coming to the conclusion that the program was on a par with the junior high one in Odessa. He also found it hard to adjust to the idea of playing games in front of a handful of people when he had played in front of twenty-five thousand at Texas Stadium.
H. G. Bissinger • Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition): A Town, a Team, and a Dream
“Kobe sprinted through life like no one I've ever known. He had no hobbies or distractions. Didn't play golf, didn't hang out with buddies, didn't go to parties. Occasionally, he'd decide to see a movie and would rent out the whole theater so he could take a small group of friends or family to see it privately, usually twice in a row. Otherwise, he
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