Skip to content

When it comes to death, sex, and money, everybody lies.

— Dale Bailey The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

Another quote →

Topics

Money

More quotes by Dale Bailey

You must never run away from the truth, Jake, however unpleasant. Because once you begin running, you can never stop.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

The wall clock ticked, dividing the silence into discrete segments of discomfort.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

All writers are unregenerate thieves, and the ones who deny it are also liars.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

I believed then – and I believe still – that fiction driven by purely ideological goals is likely to be very poor fiction indeed.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

“You ever want to get away? You ever want to see the world?”
“I’ve seen it, Kemp. It’s overrated.”

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

All Dale Bailey quotes →

You may also like

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)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Dale Bailey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.