Jamal Slovick

“How are you?" she asked.
It was a question that would've required some college-level math and about an hour of discussion to answer.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Why has God not made man just as He wanted him to be?” he answered, “For the very reason that the duty of man is to perfect himself.”
― Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp

“It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations