“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers
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“It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”
Speech on receiving the Shakespeare Prize awarded by the University of Hamburg, Germany (1969)
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