January 2012
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December 2011
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Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages,...
– Michael Lewis
November 2011
3 posts
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Don’t be defeatist, dear. It’s very middle class.
– Cousin Violet
October 2011
6 posts
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Wien und Budapest
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Humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the...
– Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
September 2011
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July 2011
16 posts
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I was unafraid, I was a boy, I was a tender age
melic in the naked, knew a lake...
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? ...
– Salinger, JD. The Catcher in the Rye
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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?
– Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead
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A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
– W.C. Fields
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Soon the first snow will come. And then he will appear again. The snowman. And...
– Nesbo, Jo (2011). The Snowman
June 2011
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May 2011
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I visualize the stars slowly becoming visible in the nighttime sky, because (1)...
– Wayne, Teddy (2010). Kapitoil: A Novel (P.S.)
March 2011
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We just want to make having babies more of an embarrassment. Like smoking’s an...
– Franzen, Jonathan (2010). Freedom: A Novel