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  1. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    In the waves of layoffs that accompanied these paroxysmal death-throes, this bearded shit-in-a-suit whacked the newspapers most profitable sections and bureaus and its best writers and shooters, all to protect his ring of beholden pets , a phalanx of talent-challenged ass-sniffers and the cadre of bulbous interns that he hired from his Midwest alma mater and it's pretentiously name H-School of Journalism {there are two things that should never be named: j-schools and penises}, an equally overrated institution that he hoped to eventually return to in some kind of endowed bean bag chair.
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  2. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    Among the world's evils-fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation- smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.
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  3. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    So I make one phone call, and just like that, we're eating pizza at 6:30. What is this world? You tap seven abstract figures onto a piece of plastic thin as a billfold, hold that plastic device to your head, use your lungs and vocal cords to indicate more abstractions, and in thirty minutes, a guy pulls up in a 2,000-pound machine made on an island on the other side of the world, fueled by viscous liquid made from the rotting corpses of dead organisms pulled from the desert on yet another side of the world and you give this man a few sheets of green paper representing the abstract wealth of your home nation, and he gives you a perfectly reasonable facsimile of one of the staples of the diet of a people from yet another faraway nation.And the mushrooms are fresh.
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  4. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    {…} my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man {or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves}
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  5. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    And I wonder if we don't live like waterseeking a levela low beduntil one day we just go dry.I wonder if a creek ever realizesit has made its own grave.
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  6. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    „Listen," Richard says, „unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about here is irreversible, fatal. You have fiscal Ebola, Matt. You are bleeding out through your nose and your mouth and your eye sockets, from your financial asshole." See! Fiscal Ebola? My financial asshole is bleeding? This was exactly why I started poetfolio.com; there are money poets everywhere.
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  7. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live."
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  8. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.
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  9. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    „I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa," Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words.
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  10. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    I don't know what I expected – no maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface- but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino at the beginning of The Godfather reasonably bemused, untouched by his criminal world, sitting with Diane Keaton whispering about Luca Brazzi, not yet asleep with the fishes, or like Al Pacino from Glengarry Glen Ross, although actually, now that I think about it, he's not like Al Pacino at all but more like Kevin Spacey from that film, and who's ever been afraid of Kevin Spacey?
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  11. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    {…} met the owner of this cozy book-and-candle Apt. G, a tall, leggy, striking girl named Bea or maybe just the letter B or maybe the insect Bee, not sure, her long blond hair pulled in a ponytail, her no-doubt banging body effortlessly buried beneath a pile of tights and sweaters and scarves – she is a walking coat rack – and as we shook hands, Bea fixed me with the most alarming blue-eyed stare of my life, the kind of stare in which you think some potent subliminal message is being passed along {Run away with me or maybe just Run away}, {…}"
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