“Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.”

— Paul Theroux , book The Old Patagonian Express

Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=vrtURNBqzRMC&q=%22Tightfisted+people+are+as+mean+with+friendship+as+they+are+with+cash+suspicious+unbelieving+and+incurious%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage, The Passenger Train to Tapachula
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)

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American travel writer and novelist 1941

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