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“I was the baby of the family. Now I don’t have anybody to show off for anymore.”

DUDE ENOUGGH

“What we have created instead, as customers and employees and investors, is mountains of paper wealth so enormous that a handful of people in charge of them can take millions and billions for themselves without hurting anyone. Apparently.

Many members of my generation are disappointed.”


Oh okay. Why is this one of the only coherent sentiments in this book

“It may be, too, that we wanted to escape the powerful pull, not of gravity, which is everywhere, but of Crown Hill Cemetery.
Crown Hill got my sister Allie. It didn’t get Jane. It won’t get my big brother Bernie. It won’t get me.”

Oh.

“All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.”

Girl.

sometimes while reading this, wi will come across something so despicable that i literally have to close the book and take a break while saying “what?” out loud a few times. i don’t understand this book at all

what the Fuck am i reading

“G-men, under orders from J. Edgar Hoover, the unmarried homosexual director of the FBI, shot Dillinger dead…”

HELLO????????? this is the most unhinged the I’ve ever read. And not even bc of this quote, just bc of how this man writes. What the fuck is happening. Why is J Edgar Hoover catching strays.