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Gay Talese

"I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about."

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"I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about."

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"There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete."

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"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."

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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."

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