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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"People will always choose more money over more sex."
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Personal Development
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
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Personal Development
"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."
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"Prospering just doesn't have to do with money."
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Personal Development
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
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Personal Development
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."
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"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
Truth
"I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision."
Vision
"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
Money
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
Poetry
"I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it."
Family
"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."
Fun
"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
Work
"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
Writing
"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
Expectation
"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."
Thought
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