Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

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Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

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Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

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I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

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If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

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