Status Updates From All That I Have (Lucian Win...

Slow moving

Okay a little hard to get through.slow moving.

They keep busy. They’re a gifted people, the Russians, but they do nothing by halves. And also, of course, they’re all quite mad.

Look, Sheriff, says Emory. Look, Sheriff, says Logan Tracy. Look, this. Look, that. Your big lookers, these important fellows are. When you hear that “Look,” be careful. Go slow. Because the fellow who’s telling you to look don’t want you to. He wants you to think he’s an honest, plain-talking straight shooter who, when he says “Look,” is getting ready to level with you. He ain’t. He never is.

If there's harm done, nice times out of ten it's the rich who do it, not the poor. The rich man...changes the whole place, the whole land, so it's to his liking -- and he changes it forever. He turns the ass end of creation into real estate. Have a rich man for your friend, if you can, but a poor man for your neighbor.

Every day there was another turn I could have taken; there were a thousand other turns. But I didn’t. Others did, but not me. Am I sorry about that? Maybe, a little, sometimes. Not much. This is my life, it looks like, this one here. One to a customer is the rule. It is what it is.