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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. ↗

— Paul Getty

#circumstances #cynical #events #made #rich

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#being #companies #company #cultures #dealing

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#boiled #could #disappointing #down #form

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#get #going #mind #nothing #plate

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens