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“There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
“Thats free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thingthe truly democratic thing about itis that you dont even have to be a player to lose.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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