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What appeared to be economic growth was activity fueled by people borrowing money they probably couldn’t afford to repay: by their rough count, worldwide debts, public and private, had more than doubled since 2002, from $84 trillion to $195
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“The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“I don't need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like... happens.”
― Such a Fun Age
― Such a Fun Age
“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“Chuck functions here as a kind of authenticity fetish, allowing Hans (and the reader) the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren’t neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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