“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Colonel Vaughn shot well. He bought us five hundred years.”
"The Colonel's Tiger", Man-Kzin Wars VII, Baen, 1995, p. 77. ISBN 0-671-87670-8.
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