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Orwell meant to show how authoritarian masters exploit the masses’ labor.
Sarah was too busy admiring Boxer’s work ethic.
Being a seventh-year associate at a big firm is like being a forty-year-old woman in a long-term relationship. You are poised to win or lose big.
Chloe was about as industrious as a house cat.
boredom and lack of recognition.
when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine.
Annie could not remember her mother ever reading her a story or playing a game with her.
“Oh, I know I wasn’t a perfect mother. But we can’t all be perfect, Annie. I can’t be like you. And truth be told, I wouldn’t want to be.
the truth is that you’ll never be a first-class human being or even a first-class woman until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.”
“You stole that from The Philadel...
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“My skin is not very ambitious. It doesn’t have any goals.”
No matter how old Annie got, she never stopped hoping for her own “aha!” moment.
so accustomed to hyperinflated prices that they had lost all sense of what things should cost.
They were like people permanently stuck in an airport (“Four dollars for a Twix? Why not?”).
word of mouth could be a powerful selling tool.
every pitch she could imagine.
There was the social justice argument: “These people have too much money; they deserve to be tricked out of it.”
“Aren’t you tired of working for other people and taking orders? Wouldn’t you like to finally ta...
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duress argument: “This may be morally sticky, but we have to do it....
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The utilitarian argument: “These rich people are going to waste this money anyway. We’ll us...
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The “I dare you” argument: “For once in your lif...
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The short-term argument: “This is a temporary campaign to raise m...
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And, of course, the “Greatest Love of All” argument: “We have to do it for the children,
“So we should feel free to trick these people out of their money because they can afford it? Is that what you’re saying?” “Yes!”
“It’s not stealing. What I’m proposing is a completely consensual transaction.
A win-win.
She’s hoping it will. She’s paying for a fantasy,
“Yes! We are nobodies. And since we’re nobodies, we can be anybody.”
“The transitive theory of Aniston. Jennifer Aniston has the secret of eternal youth. You know Jennifer Aniston. Therefore, you also have the secret of eternal youth.”
The Catcher in the Rye, she didn’t identify with the angsty teenage Holden Caulfield.
honest-to-God fountain of youth.”
StriVectin
Joan Collins once said that being beautiful was like being born rich and getting poorer every day.
Bank account becomes a proxy for dick size.”
She had a golden retriever’s naked need to be liked.
“Age before beauty.
