James Baldwin on money

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Preface, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

Katharine Hepburn1907–2003

• Sex

Cocaine is God’s way of telling someone that they’re too rich.

Robin Williams1951–2014

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