"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."

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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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"People will always choose more money over more sex."

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"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."

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"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."

Thinking

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

Reading

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

Work

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Time

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

Business

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

Environment

"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."

Movies

"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

Dream

"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."

Movies

"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."

Movies