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Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
so-called great risk shift, through which corporate America has stabilized its own income statements over a generation by off-loading uncertainty onto workers; and the ways in which shareholders were running companies more and more for themselves, to the detriment of every other stakeholder.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
He talked the way people on television talked, and he moved the way people on television moved. There was always a layer of glass between us. I was on this side, and he was on that side. “As
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The story that isn’t Mark Nechtr’s by Mark Nechtr concerns a young competitive archer, named Dave, and his live-in lover, named L____. Dave, who is not nearly so healthy as Mark, believes that the only things that give his life meaning and direction are his competitive archery and his lover, L____, who is a great deal more attractive and
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
I’m going to claim that evil is what David Lynch’s movies are essentially about, and that Lynch’s explorations of human beings’ various relationships to evil are, if idiosyncratic and Expressionistic, nevertheless sensitive and insightful and true. I’m going to submit that the real “moral problem” a lot of us cinéastes have with Lynch is that we
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