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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you. There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Hate will keep you alive where love fails The biggest lies we save for ourselves I’ll tell you…
We’re all a disappointment to someone.’ The desert is hot and boring. I’m sorry, but that’s pretty much all there is to it. It’s also sandy, but rocks are essentially dull things and breaking them up into really small pieces doesn’t improve matters. Some people will tell you how the desert changes character day by…
my fake laugh is even better than my real one, and nine-tenths of being popular is the ability to jolly the menials along. The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in…
The past can’t hurt you anymore unless you let it. Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences. We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail.…
He’s a fox, and foxes have a predictable nature. Trust this Jew about that Jew. If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere. Brilliance should be acknowledged. You see, I’ve developed a reputation as a man who came up the hard way. You could say that there’s blood on…
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit…
Rationality suffocates in the air of superstition in the colonies This entire culture is based on hypocrisy, on fakery, on mocking up the appearance for that which cannot be obtained this was the thing about America that he loved the most: the utter faith that family did not matter, that the past was but a…
Fools learn from experience, I prefer to learn from the experience of others. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, The Wise man learns from the mistakes of others. When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good…
times of peace are when the wise prepare for violence There’s a time for subtlety and a time for action!’‘There is never a time for recklessness, Leo. Or for vanity You have it in you to be a great man, but you cannot let yourself be swept off by whatever emotion blows your way. Battles…
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