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“Alva embodied a curious contradiction in that she felt she cared deeply for women as a class while nursing venomous contempt for the women she actually knew.”
― Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
― Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
“a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“There is a better world,” a man said. “But it’s more expensive.”
― Trust
― Trust
“Gilded sin is so much more interesting than ragged sin,” she reflected. “Scandal dressed in ermine and purple is much more salacious than scandal in overalls or a kitchen apron.”
― Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
― Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
“Linear perspective may have launched the Renaissance from Florence, dear Eva, but it did not launch linearity. Not for us. Perspective is but the canvas. Life itself, as Italy knows, will draw its own lines and few are straight.”
― The Curse of Pietro Houdini
― The Curse of Pietro Houdini
Jerry’s 2025 Year in Books
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