Joan Didion quote: it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some ...

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

~ Joan Didion ~

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