"JR" Quotes
"JR" by William Gaddis is a satirical novel chronicling the chaotic rise of an eleven-year-old boy who builds a paper empire on Wall Street, exposing the absurdities of American capitalism through fragmented dialogue and dark humor.
fiction | 752 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
You're not a person, Mr. Bast, you're a test case.
One thing for sure, the insurance companies don't like sick people.
And then you're not just a case, you're a test case.
There's always only one more minor adjustment, one more last touch up, one more patch.
There's been a lot of talk about you, Mr. Bast, but nobody seems to know you.
You can't teach a kid anything if you've got to hold his hand all the time.
You're the only one who can make any sense of it, Mr. Bast.
They all want something for nothing, that's the trouble.
It's a dog eat dog world, Mr. Bast.
