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Noel Constant is Malachi’s father. A self-made billionaire, he founds his company, Magnum Opus, when he is 39 and a “business failure.” He begins investing according to an “idiotically simple” strategy of choosing companies to invest in based on the letters of the Bible, and thanks to strange luck became incredibly rich almost immediately. Despite achieving enormous financial success, Noel remains miserable throughout his life, and fails to develop a connection with his son, Malachi, whom he has with a prostitute named Florence. In a letter to his son which Malachi reads after Noel’s death, Noel admits that he was not a good man and that he was “as good as dead” while he was still alive.
Noel Constant Quotes in The Sirens of Titan
The The Sirens of Titan quotes below are all either spoken by Noel Constant or refer to Noel Constant. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3: United Hotcake Preferred
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There was something pathetic and repellent about Malachi Constant’s talking business. It has been the same with his father. Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son—and what little charm the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on their knowing their elbows from third base.
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His system was so idiotically simple that some people can’t understand it, no matter how often it is explained. The people who can’t understand it are people who have to believe, for their own peace of mind, that tremendous wealth can be produced only by tremendous cleverness.
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Noel Constant Quotes in The Sirens of Titan
The The Sirens of Titan quotes below are all either spoken by Noel Constant or refer to Noel Constant. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3: United Hotcake Preferred
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There was something pathetic and repellent about Malachi Constant’s talking business. It has been the same with his father. Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son—and what little charm the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on their knowing their elbows from third base.
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His system was so idiotically simple that some people can’t understand it, no matter how often it is explained. The people who can’t understand it are people who have to believe, for their own peace of mind, that tremendous wealth can be produced only by tremendous cleverness.
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