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by tomweingarten 811 days ago
https://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou...

The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.

Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”