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“He suggested that we build a Money Hall of Fame out here, with busts of the arbitrageurs and hostile-takeover specialists and venture capitalists and investment bankers and golden handshakers and platinum parachutists in niches, with their statistics cut into stone—how many millions they had stolen legally in how short a time.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“And what is literature, Rabo,” he said, “but an insider’s newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called ‘thought.’ ”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“Let me put it yet another way: life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death,”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“The ding-ding-ding wasn’t coming from the train, of course, but from signals at crossings, where anybody who didn’t give us the right-of-way would be ripped to smithereens. Serve ’em right! They were nothing. We were everything.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“Rabo Karabekian, then, created at least one masterpiece as a lover, which was necessarily created in private and vanished from the Earth even more quickly than the paintings which made me a footnote in Art History. Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn’t everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
Mohammad’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mohammad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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