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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
"Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start."
Explore more quotes by Denis Johnson
"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."
"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."
"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."
"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
"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."
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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