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Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future, we wouldn’t all be famous for fifteen minutes; we’d be famous 24/7 to fifteen people. That was the new paradigm, even if the outside world didn’t realize it yet. Facebook employees—we few, we happy few—knew what world was coming, and we’d help create it.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
had started dumping sachets of mushroom powder into his metal water bottle. Alex had tried a sip: it made the water taste swampy and expensive.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Mais ces richesses ne pourraient-elles pas être mieux redistribuées ? Et si une fois que vous aviez gagné trente millions on vous remettait une médaille, et on vous disait : “Vous avez gagné !” Le reste serait donné aux pauvres. – Je pars du principe que la plupart des pauvres ne sauraient quoi faire de tout cet argent, dit Barry, d’une voix beauco
... See moreGary Shteyngart • Lake Success (French Edition)
She was eating a Three Musketeers Candy Bar. She was wearing tri-focal lenses in harlequin frames,
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five


Avant Princeton, Barry avait l’impression de mieux comprendre ce qui se disait dans la rue, alors qu’il avait désormais besoin de sous-titres. Seema avait peut-être raison. Plus de vingt ans dans la finance avaient tari son imagination.
Gary Shteyngart • Lake Success (French Edition)
His nonfiction persona was, as Wallace told an interviewer, “a little stupider and shmuckier than I am.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
