"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

Money, Sex, Thought, Nothing

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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

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