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There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Champagne for One (1958)

There's nothing as safe as ignorance — or as dangerous.

The Squirt and the Monkey (1951)

My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.

To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

as stated by Nero Wolfe in The Red Box (1937)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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