QUOTES OF THE DAY

“There is no clean way to make a hundred million bucks. Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them. Decent people lost their jobs. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong.”

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterwards with more awful effect.”

Robert W. Chambers, The King In Yellow

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The flaw with The Fed’s model of real earnings growth is that it is not organic growth, but a massive block of sugar. And a sugar crash invariably follows.”

Anthony Sanders

“There is no clean way to make a hundred million bucks. Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them. Decent people lost their jobs. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong. It’s the system…

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean.”

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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“Easy is the descent into hell, for the door to the darkness below stands open both night and day. But to be able to retrace one’s steps, to return once again to the breezes and brightness above– that is the greater task, that is the challenge.”

Virgil, Aeneid

“There is no clean way to make a hundred million bucks. Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them. Decent people lost their jobs. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong. It’s the system…

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean.”

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye