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People's stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

William Deresiewicz

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

William Deresiewicz

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

William Deresiewicz

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn't enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world's systems) to allow you to do.

William Deresiewicz

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz

Born: 1964 (age 61)

Bio: William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic. Born in 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey, Deresiewicz attended Columbia University before teaching English at Yale University from 1998-2008.

Known for:

Excellent Sheep (2014)
Jane Austen and the romantic poets (2004)
The Death of Friendship (2011)
What the Ivy League Won't Teach You (2011)

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