“A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.”
"Algren wrote in a letter in late middle age" (1960s), quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
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American novelist, short story writer 1909–1981Related quotes
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Maxim 584
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.”
Chapters on Prayer
“I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife.”
Jesus Camp http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/01/at_five_i_got_s_1.php, retrieve January 12, 2007.
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
“If I see a jacker comin' my way, I load my AK,
Don't think I won't spray, it'll be yo last day.”
One Two.
Song lyrics, Cocaine (2009)
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
Source: Works and Days and Theogony