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“We all love a good story, a concise explanation of how the world works. We all love an easy buck. Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again. This is how it happened in 1929.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
“The almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis is one thing: debt.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
“Human beings need to give and receive love. Does it really matter whom we choose to love so long as we are loving?”
― On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
― On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
“Your reading should be fun. We only call them literary works. Really, though, it's all a form of play. So play, Dear Reader, play. And fare thee well.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“But, if I was never complete, I never exaggerated. Every one of those articles was an understatement, especially where the conditions were bad, and the proof thereof is that while each article seemed to astonish other cities, it disappointed the city which was its subject.... I cut twenty thousand words out of the Philadelphia article and yet I had not written half my facts. I know a man who is making a history of the corrupt construction of the Philadelphia City Hall, in three volumes, and he grieves because he lacks space. You can’t put all the known incidents of the corruption of an American city into a book.
This is all very unscientific, but then, I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts.”
― The Shame Of The Cities
This is all very unscientific, but then, I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts.”
― The Shame Of The Cities
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