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"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
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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."

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

"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."

"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."
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"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."

"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."

"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."

"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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