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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”

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Ira Glass, born on March 3, 1959, is a renowned radio personality. He is best known for his work on the NPR program 'This American Life,' which has gained popularity for its in-depth storytelling and unique perspective on everyday life. more

“What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”

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Author:Ira Glass

“You just have to fight your way through.”

Way Fighting

Author:Ira Glass

“Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.”

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Author:Ken Tucker

“Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.”

Turns Lines Memories Television Enormous Despite

Author:Justin Kaplan

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”

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Book:Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”

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Book:Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”

“Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?”

Has Beens Challenges Tests Quests Vague Clue Pepsi

Author:Ernest Cline

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