“And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.”
“I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.”
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| Oliver Hardy, Actor (1957) |
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