Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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you can haul us right up on the carpet
J R

—That’s the, must be our last proxy statement Boss a little kit we put together for them on the, boys and girls? We can’t get into too many details now, we just wanted you to meet the topflight managerial talent your directors have working here for you, we’re all here to keep your profits rolling i…

—p.113 J R J R (1) by William Gaddis
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a man who has contributed so greatly

—Governor Cates is one of the men who opened the frontiers of America as we know it today, Davidoff leaned knuckled under on the expanse of walnut stretched before him, pad, pencils, ashtray, pad, pencils, ashtray,—he . . .
—Him? He was this frontiersman?
—Not like Daniel Boone if that’s what you…

—p.96 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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if you want to quote me you can say

—Crawley here. What? No, I don’t know what the hell’s going on there nobody does . . . What? no, it’s not just two or three stocks, it’s the whole market . . . do what? Certainly not. If you want to quote me you can say the long overdue technical readjustments taking place in our present dynamic ma…

—p.88 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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laid out side by side on aprons of grass

—My book! My book! That’s all we ever hear from you my book, well let me just tell you something that’s to don’t be surprised if somebody else has a book, that’s all. Just don’t be surprised! And she fixed unflinching on the passing gantlet of apartment house existences dismantled and laid out side…

—p.57 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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laboring for a paycheck from the corporate machine

During all the years he worked on J R, he was dutifully laboring for a paycheck from the corporate machine -- Kodak, Ford, IBM, Pfizer ("an operation of international piracy") -- writing ad copy and position papers [...] He knew the cant of marketing well and was ever alert to systems of speech, of…

—p.xi Introduction (v) by Joy Williams