As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.
--"Tango
There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
--"Bomar
Stichwörter: materialism money-not-happiness
There were no windows in the Stockholders' Records Section of the Treasurer's Department of the American Forge and Foundry Company. But the soft, sweet music from the loudspeaker on the green wall by the clock, music that increased the section's productivity by 3 percent, kept pace with the seasons, and provided windows of a sort for the staff.
--"Bomar
People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.
--"$10,000 A Year, Easy
Stichwörter: money beauty twisted-logic
I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through--poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap--money unhappiness.
--"$10,000 a Year, Easy
Stichwörter: money-not-happiness
Her pleasure went on and on, and so did Ben's. Ben could almost smell the gardenia, could almost see her pinning it on, her hands all thumbs.
"You're selling your store?" she said.
There was radiance between them now. There were overtones and undertones to everything they said. The talk itself was formal, lifeless.
--"Money Talks
Stichwörter: love passion bewilderment radiance
Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Look at him! That's life, according to the medical profession. Isn't life wonderful?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back... But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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