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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Writer
Kingston
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
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