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“A man’s worth is established by the number of these defining circumstances he is able to create for himself. He need not always be successful, for there can be great honor in defeat.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained… Logical sequence, however, gets lost in the shuffle.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction-a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's what it is. And how is reality funded? With yet another fiction: money. Money is at the core of it all. An illusion we've all agreed to support. Unanimously. We can differ on other matters, like creed or political affiliations, but we all agree on the fiction of money and that this abstraction represents concrete goods. Any goods. Look it up. It's all in Marx. Money, he says, is not one thing. It is, potentially, all things. And for this reason it is unrelated to all things.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Public opinion is driven by emotion. People have an emotional response to something, then they come up with an argument for why it logically makes sense.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping