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I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham Money And Class In America (1989)

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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Money And Class In America (1989)

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Money And Class In America (1989)

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

Money And Class In America (1989)

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)

Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)

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