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Flights of fancy and imagination open me to intriguing possibilities but sometimes might lack of assertiveness and follow-through. Hounded by instincts which at times lead to the pursuit of eccentric whims... ...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Unexamined Life


Whoever said the unexamined life is not worth living apparently never intended to go into book publishing, where there is almost no research and where much of the conventional wisdom is a pastiche of folklore, myth and wishful thinking.

-- Edwin McDowell, "Publishing: And They All Said It Wouldn't Sell", New York Times, February 6, 1989

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