"I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need."

-- J. Paul Getty

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.”
“True kindness ennobles the giver”
“One works without thinking how to work.”

Source : Christian Geelhaar, Jasper Johns, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (1980). “Jasper Johns working proofs”
“There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.”

Source : "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.
“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.”
“Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.”
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.184, Rowman & Littlefield
“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”

Source : "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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