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“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to death, as if his alcohol could hold back the disease that swept through his brain.”

Death Parent Dying Disease Alcohol

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“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

Life Stories Books Lies Writing Quotes

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“Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is”

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“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The average American on minimum wage could barely afford to keep themselves alive on canned food. Millions died over private oil fortunes. Wealthy men and women ran the world for profit. Fools and charlatans got into our Parliaments and set the world on fire. We had everything on paper - checks, balances, freedom, democracy - and yet to live was to be a slave.”

World Politics Economics Inequality

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“It's an impressive thing, a shard of human ingenuity broken and stuck in this valley and the flowers growing around it like a monument to how far we can come if we put our minds to it.”

Humanity Progress Failure

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“What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.”

Technology Journalism Startups Utopian Socialism

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