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But then the story says, “Well, hold on; isn’t one quality of a harsh system that it deforms the people within it and makes them complicit in their own destruction?” (Which is another way of saying: “Let’s not forget that Marya is a human being, and complicated, and susceptible to error.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
modern Manhattan woman,
V. E. Schwab • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
noblesse oblige,
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial gam
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Thinking about her, captivated by the way she talked, the things she knew, the look of her hands as she sketched—or, storms, as she did something as simple as raising a spoon to her lips.
Brandon Sanderson • Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive
In a static world, a monopolist is just a rent collector.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But being around Dov made her feel impatient with her twenty-year-old brain and the quality of its ideas.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Be he’s not a mad scientist, Orr thought dully, he’s a pretty sane one, or he was. It’s the chance of power that my dreams give him that twists him around. He keeps acting a part, and this gives him such an awfully big part to play. So that now he’s using even his science as a means, not an end … But his ends are good, aren’t they? He wants to impr
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
