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" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "
Timothy Morton
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" I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress. "
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