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“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

“It couldn’t hurt to think I was beautiful anyway. After all, I think L.A.’s beautiful and it’s not fashionable or right.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“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

“I think I’ve never before really seen how beautiful it is … But I suppose it’s because I’m seeing it for the first time as something I must leave and say farewell to.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game