"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."

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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."

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"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."

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