"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

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Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

Edmund Wilson

#Money Quotes #Income Quotes #Adequate Quotes

“My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.”
“The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.”
“I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art history doesn't make any sense. The point is, if you have a loving, adorable, supportive mother anywhere in the world and you tell her all of your dreams, all of your aspirations, and the reward you would like, and she understands you, then it's not worth doing.”

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“True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.”
“The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
“I'm a peripheral visionary.”
“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”
“Music is the key to the female heart.”

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