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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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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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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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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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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."

Money

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."

Reading

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

Cultural

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."

People

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

Fact

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

Future

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"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."

Power

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"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

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