"Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money,……" — John Lanchester
"Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have."
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14 Quotes by John Lanchester
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as…
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as…
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The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a…
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new…
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We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was…
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It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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