“If I had plenty, I'd be content with what I have.”

— Avner Strauss

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Avner Strauss 19

Israeli musician 1954

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I was na fou, but just had plenty.”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 3 (1787)

“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”

Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II

To Leon Goldensohn, February 4, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“Ever since I have been writing on secularism and religious conflict, and particularly about Islam, I have had plenty of mud thrown at me. What I have never seen so far is an actual refutation of my central theses.”

Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer

2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

“Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Strange Horizons interview (2008)
Context: I never read an author twice if I can't trust him or her to make it come out right. I never read an author twice if he writes the kind of books where everyone and everything is in tension from page one to the last paragraph of the last page, like that dreadful TV show, 24. Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.