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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
"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."
"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
"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."
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"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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