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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

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There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.

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Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman

Born: May 21, 1969 (age 57)

Bio: Amy Waldman is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with the New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11.

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