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“That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.”
― Their Lips Talk of Mischief
― Their Lips Talk of Mischief
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.”
― The Financial Lives of the Poets
― The Financial Lives of the Poets
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