She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness."Nillness , thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness , that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material p... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. EVAN G. GALBRAITH The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A... ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r... ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat. ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ... ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th... ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ... ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte... ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso... ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t... ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,... ROBERT KENNEDY