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“A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”

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“We are a nation of shareholders," he had said more than once to Seema, trying to articulate his brand of no-nonsense but compassionate capitalism.... Several times during his Greyhound trip, Barry had paused to consider that, although he loved his fellow passengers deeply, he could not trust them at the voting booth because they were not shareholders. They did not understand the thrill and the pain and the obligation of owning a part of their country.”

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“What she missed most about dating men was that small, disconcerting time frame when you thought that maybe you could change them.”

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“You go around and you do things and you don't know why you do them," she said. "And that's the story of your gender writ large.”

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“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”

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“Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.”

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“We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.”

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