“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two… But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”

— Max Barry , book Machine Man

Source: Machine Man

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Australian writer 1973

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