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"When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it."
"Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action."
"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
"What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are."
"If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain."
"Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?"
"Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does."
"It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper."
"In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value."
""Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it."
"Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling."
