"These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough."

-- William A. Rusher

#Thinking Quotes #Use Quotes #Cash Quotes

“Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.”
“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”
“I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.”
“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”
“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
“Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from itâ€”just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.”
“I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.”
“The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.”

Source : "My Dinner with Strummer". Interview with Earl Chalmers for Rude International, March 1999.

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