“ Without money, you can’t be straightforward in your dealings with women. For without money, you can’t pick and choose, you’ve got to take what women you can get ”
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | Keep the Aspidistra Flying |
| Topic | money women |
| Date | 1936 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200021.txt |
Context
“Comme au long d’un cadavre un cadavre étendu. And even when they were not tarts it had been squalid, always squalid. Always it had started in a sort of cold-blooded wilfulness and ended in some mean, callous desertion. That, too, was money. Without money, you can’t be straightforward in your dealings with women. For without money, you can’t pick and choose, you’ve got to take what women you can get; and then, necessarily, you’ve got to break free of them. Constancy, like all other virtues, has got to be paid for in money. And the mere fact that he had rebelled against the money code and wouldn’t settle down in the prison of a ‘good’ job—a thing no woman will ever understand—had brought a quality of impermanence, of deception, into all his affairs with women.”
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