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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
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If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
December 29, 1922
Died:
December 16, 1998
(aged 75)
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