Michael Lewis - Quotes

 He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. 

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Vladimir Nabokov - Quotes

 Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. 

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Isaac Asimov - Quotes

 And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile  

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Bertrand Russell - Quotes

 Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. 

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