"If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money"

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Source : William Gaddis (1975). “J R”, Random House

William Gaddis

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“I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.”
“From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.”

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“I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.”
“The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.”
“Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.”
“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”
“I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.”
“Capitalismâ€™s real â€œgrave-diggersâ€ may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.”

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