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Although Danny was clearly a master of the game, making money was not an end in itself for him. I think that is true of many successful people in finance. Apart from giving money away, they have passionate outside interests.
Eugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market
Without being a writer himself, he could speak the language of writers better than any editor or publisher” one would ever meet.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
a third approach, uncomfortable but sincere realism for a world that was no longer real.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
He was also prolific, which matters almost as much.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
“If, in a piece of creative nonfiction, an event is claimed to have happened, it must happen.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
“the head throb heartlike”:
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
him—the inability to slow down his whirring mind was part of what he felt made his life so hard.