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“Goddamn money, It always ends up making you blue as hell”

“It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day”

“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart”

“Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group!”

“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say & the power to say it–only I don't know what it is & I can't make any use”

“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny”

“They learn to associate topsy-turvydom with well-being; in fact, they’re only truly happy when they’re standing on their heads.”