Quote #76

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. ~ Ch. 3

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  1. Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. ~ Ch. 3
  2. It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. ~ Ch. 3
  3. I was talking like this to the Princeton professor and he said well if these are the facts there is no hope and I said well what is hope ho…
  4. Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clea…
  5. If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog…
  6. I dislike it when instead of saying Jew they say Hebrew or Israelite, or Semite, I do not like it and why should a Negro want to be called …
  7. A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints…
  8. Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. ~ Ch. 4

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