Dmitry Bondarev

“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine