"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

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"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

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