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What are you unwilling to optimise?

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Elie Wiesel Writer and human rights advocate; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1986
It went from publisher to publisher to publisher. All of them refused it. They gave the same reasons, until a small publisher picked it up. From 1960 to 1963, three years, it didn’t sell 1500 copies. Nobody wanted to read it. It doesn’t matter. I am not here to sell, I’m here to write.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 29 June 1996 source ↗

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