The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow s...ky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the ...religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed... On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well it doesn'...t, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give money me, take friendship whoso list, For friends are gone come once adversity.... When money yet remaineth safe in chest, That quickly can thee bring from misery. Fair face show friends when riches do abound;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »