This is the way the world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Paul Desmond (1924-1977), quoted in Steven Pinker’s When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…

Not inspirational, for a change, but simply delicious word-play. To quote the passage in Pinker’s fascinating book, it is “the musician Paul Desmond’s comment on women who marry for money rather than romance.”

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