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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

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1984

by George Orwell

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

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“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.”
― Paul Graham

tags: beliefs, ethics, history, ideas, morals, relativism

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