Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
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