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Franz Kafka is considered one of the most creative and influential writers of the 20th century, but he actually spent most of his time working as a lawyer for the Workers Accident Insurance Institute.

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“I’m dull and boring,” Chabon said, “So I’m always looking for some way out of the confines of my skull.”

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60. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961

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You’re never too old to start reading Harry Potter (or read it all over again).

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This asseveration lead me to the undeserved conceit of imagining life as Ellis (“…after all, who am I compared to him?” says the Woody Allen sequitir in my head), and thus, to imagining what I would do if I were B.E.E. for a day.