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Rise, fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX at center of Michael Lewis’ new book | 60 Minutes
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“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn’t escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn’t defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.” — Patrick Süskind
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“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
— Patrick Suskind
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“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.” — Patrick Süskind
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“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
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If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
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Ernest Hemingway, Wrestling With Life (documentary)