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“Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings”

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Ben Horowitz is a distinguished businessman and venture capitalist. He co-founded Andreessen Horowitz, a highly successful venture capital firm, with Marc Andreessen. Horowitz has a background in technology and has been instrumental in numerous high-profile investments in the tech sector. more

“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.”

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Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.”

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Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

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