“The rich are inebriate in another way and cannot contrive to grasp these frenzied longings for security. To be rich is another form of intoxication: it spells forgetfulness. In fact, that is what one wants riches for: to forget.”
Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
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Elaine Dundy book Elvis and Gladys
Elvis and Gladys (1985), Ch. 5 : A Romance, p. 55
Context: What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.
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Source: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 5 (p. 83)
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
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Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
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Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 338
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
