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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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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."
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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."
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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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"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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"A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
Man

"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
Conscience

"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real."
People

"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
Consciousness

"All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side."
Beauty

"If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed."
Writing

"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
Leadership

"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized."
Leadership

"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
Bible

"Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him."
Love
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