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“A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

“In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: “One hand, one million dollars, no tears.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“A man got to have a code. - Omar Little”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys

“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the trading floor. He’d go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys’ locker room.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“One thin's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get — children.
In the meantime,
In between time...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel—white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Shining a light creates shadows,”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“The hoofbeats rang through the town like pistol shots.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas