Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.
David SedarisTags: money
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye
Richard ArmourIt is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert CamusTags: money happiness spirit infp
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob DylanTags: money
They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
Libba BrayTags: life money truth world position
A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.
Randy ThurmanTags: money budgeting taxes savings
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.
Roman PayneTags: money writing gold technology literature newspapers modern-life modernity cash writing-style apollinaire credit-cards digital-age literary-style
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
Kathy SkaggsTags: money poets jobs payment
Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.
Besa KosovaTags: money inspirational happiness stress-relief
Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?'
Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can buy, have no value, for there is no question of creation, but only of exchange. Houses, lands, gold, jewels, even existing works of art, may be tossed about from one hand to another; they are so, constantly. But neither you nor I can write a sonnet; and what we have, our appreciation of art, we did not buy. We inherited the germ of it, and we developed it by the sweat of our brows. The possession of money helped us, but only by giving us time and opportunity and the means of travel. Anyhow, the principle is clear; one must sacrifice the lower to the higher, and, as the Greeks did with their oxen, one must fatten and bedeck the lower, so that it may be the worthier offering.
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