The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to know who killed Dietrichson? Hold tight to that cheap cigar of yours, Keyes. I killed Dietrichson. Me, Walter Neff. In...surance salesman. Thirty-five-years old. Unmarried. No visible scars. Till a while ago, that is. Yes, I killed him. Killed him for money, and for a woman. I didn't get the money, and, I didn't get the woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unju...st world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that b...uys their books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the... highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ev...er gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »