W. H. Auden Quotes About Money
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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