Money Quote by D.H. Lawrence

“You are lazy, disgraceful, tougher than you think but not yet a dead loss. In part you are humanly okay. We are supposed to…

— Saul Bellow

“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit…

— Donald Miller

“We’re taught to work foolishly hard for a non-living entity, donating our most precious commodity—our time—for a paycheck.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can’t. Not from any fault of…

— Joseph Conrad

“Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put…

— John Steinbeck

“Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but…

— Oscar Wilde

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”

— Irvine Welsh

“Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The true luxury and the real potlatch of our times falls to the poverty-stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs.…

— Georges Bataille

“Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God,…

— Philip Larkin

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but…

— Socrates