Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if … - John Lanchester

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A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

John Lanchester

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

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We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

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Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not. . . an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you. . . and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

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