The Glass Castle

 

“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”

 

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“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

 

“Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent–all depending on who wields it and how.”

 

“If you learn how to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.”

 

The Psychopath Test

 

“There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”

 

 

“I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.”

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“We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”