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“My father called swimming “the elixir of life,” and certainly it seemed to be so for him: he swam daily, slowing down only slightly with time, until the grand age of ninety-four. I hope I can follow him, and swim till I die.”
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
“misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society”
― People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
― People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
“It is not the purpose of this book to propose remedies for rent-seeking: the implications of my analysis for business and public policy, both of which should promote the rents that arise from innovative differentiation and eliminate the ones that are the result of the abuse of political institutions, will be the task of a successor volume.”
― The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
― The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
“served as a model here for a while,” Menshiki said. “I found it odd somehow. There were times it felt like my soul was being stolen from me.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“Some of the most influential novels of recent years, by Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard, take the method of self-conscious first-person testimony to a new level. Their more extreme admirers will tell you that imagination and invention are outmoded contrivances; that to inhabit the subjectivity of a character unlike the author is an act of appropriation, even colonialism; that the only authentic and politically defensible mode of narrative is autobiography.”
― The End of the End of the Earth: A Provocative and Necessary Look at the Human Condition and Our Changing World
― The End of the End of the Earth: A Provocative and Necessary Look at the Human Condition and Our Changing World
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Valentin’s 2025 Year in Books
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