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“It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.”

Book:The Shark-Infested Custard

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The Shark-Infested Custard

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Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford was an American film writer born on January 2, 1919, and passed away on March 27, 1988. He is known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into the crime genre. more

“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram conductors. Did they know that they were only puppets dancing when money pulled the strings? You bet they didn’t. And if they did, what would they care? They were too busy being born, being married, begetting, working, dying. It mightn’t be a bad thing, if you could manage it, to feel yourself one of them, one of the ruck of men. Our civilization is founded on greed and fear, but in the lives of common men the greed and fear are mysteriously transmuted into something nobler. The lower-middle-class people in there, behind their lace curtains, with their children and their scraps of furniture and their aspidistras — they lived by the money-code, sure enough, and yet they contrived to keep their decency. The money-code as they interpreted it was not merely cynical and hoggish. They had their standards, their inviolable points of honour. They ‘kept themselves respectable’— kept the aspidistra flying. Besides, they were alive. They were bound up in the bundle of life. They begot children, which is what the saints and the soul-savers never by any chance do. The aspidistra is the tree of life, he thought suddenly.”

Money Capitalism Middle Class Decency Aspidistras

Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

Money Humour Wit

Book:The Unbearable Bassington

Source: The Unbearable Bassington

“Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money.”

Choices Money Power Victim Victim Mentality Purchases

Book:The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self

Source: The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self

“Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.”

Money Jewish Wealth Jewish Billionaires Jewish Millionaires

Book:The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

Source: The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

“Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.”

Love Great Love Pag Ibig Correct Love

Book:Para Kay B

Source: Para Kay B

“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die. she says: Is there a wall to hang it on? I say: We'll build a room for it. Where? In any house.”

Poetry

Book:Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

“I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.”

Money

Author:Harlan Ellison

“I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.”

Money

Author:Alexander Bell

“A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.”

Freedom Money Power Limits Control Rules

Book:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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