In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac. - John Lanchester
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
- John Lanchester
People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred. - John Lanchester
People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it. - John Lanchester
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right. - John Lanchester
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation mur… - John Lanchester
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation mur…
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty wa… - John Lanchester
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty wa…
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was ju… - John Lanchester
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was ju…
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control. - John Lanchester
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, whi… - John Lanchester
Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, whi…
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