"You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head."

-- Propertius

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“My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.”
“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”

Source : "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.
“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”
“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”

Source : Jean Racine (2000). “Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah”, p.87, Wordsworth Editions
“We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.”
“Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.”

Source : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.11, Knopf
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”

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