There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Nationality: American Type: Businessman Born: 1918 Death: 2001 |
Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle.
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

