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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
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On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
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There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening.
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How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles.
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A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
March 2, 1931
Died:
May 14, 2018
(aged 87)
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