“ All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you ”
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). copy citation
Author | George Orwell |
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Source | Keep the Aspidistra Flying |
Topic | relationship money |
Date | 1936 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200021.txt |
Context
“Gordon thought of Ravelston, his charming, rich friend, editor of Antichrist, of whom he was extravagantly fond, and whom he did not see so often as once in a fortnight; and of Rosemary, his girl, who loved him—adored him, so she said—and who, all the same, had never slept with him. Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you; won’t, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels.”
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