“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

— Terry Pratchett , book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

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English author 1948–2015

Rosamunde Pilcher book The Shell Seekers

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“Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

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“Money, you've got lots of friends
Crowding round the door
When you're gone, spending ends
They don't come no more
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don't take too much.”

Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter

God Bless The Child

“You breathe better when you're rich.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 95
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Respira-se melhor quando se é rico.

“Once rich, moreover, I should again travel easily about Europe, for while in the public eye a poor radical is dangerous rogue, a rich radical is merely an eccentric gentleman!”

Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars

Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 181)

“you're rich in love
you're great bed
you'll see the world
you'll knock 'em dead
and all the thick books that you've read
will count for nothing in the end”

Amanda Palmer (1976) American punk-cabaret musician

"Straight" Live (2004)
Lyrics

“If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

"Petrified Man", 1941

“You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.”

Marlon Brando (1924–2004) American screen and stage actor

Stated to Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran, as quoted in Faces in a Mirror (1980) by Ashraf Pahlavi, p. 129

“If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Campaign Rally in South Carolina http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/donald-trump-campaign-speech-lindsey-graham
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhJ2sFBJmA
2010s, 2015

“When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

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