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1 year, 11 months ago

I mean like what’s all this in the oven
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—I mean like what’s all this in the oven.
—Oh that’s mail yes, I put Mister . . .
—Well like take it out so we can make this pizza okay?
—Yes but, no but the oven doesn’t work, they turned off the . . .
—Like what do you mean it doesn’t work, I mean when I went out you said you use the oven to …

—p.390 J R J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

all these people owning you want is dividends

—Coen God damn it can’t you see what I mean? Can’t you see this is what’s going to happen right here, after all it took to put all this together? Can’t you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don’t give them that and they sell you out,…

—p.381 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

you’ve got a real instinct for the jugular

—You know what I stop and remember Tom? She’d turned abruptly, resting elbows back on the sink’s edge, facing him.—I remember Doctor Brill telling us David needed his operation for double hernia when you first went to work there and you put it off, and put it off. There was that baby and we didn’t …

—p.278 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

old enough to go out and hold up a gas station

—I just finished telling you what I mean Whiteback, it has nothing to do with curricular anything. The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station, i…

—p.240 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

this is a half fare ticket, Mister

A conductor with a wisp mustache stood tapping his punch.—Ticket?
—Ja? He looked up from the paper with a great smile.
—Your ticket?
—Ahh, Sie wollen meine, meine . . . He rummaged in pockets, to come up with a cardboard square and offer it with a beaming smile.
—This is a half fare ticket, Mis…

—p.201 J R (1) by William Gaddis