
“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
2003
December
The Guardian
'I know how to be sour'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/jan/01/1
“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
Source: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 5 (p. 83)
“I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich.”
O interview (2003)
Context: I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich. And this the one thing I learned: How do you recognize what's your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you? … The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 338
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one — no matter where he lives or what he does — can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.
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.
“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”
In the World.
Afterthoughts (1931)