Christopher Stocks» Reading http://www.christopherstocks.com Pebbles, perfume, poetry, features and books Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 What money can’t buy http://www.christopherstocks.com/what-money-cant-buy-you%e2%80%a6 http://www.christopherstocks.com/what-money-cant-buy-you%e2%80%a6#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:57:26 +0000 Chris http://www.christopherstocks.com/?p=379 I’ve been feeling down about my ever-declining income for ages now, but this quote from William Gaddis’s freewheeling Carpenter’s Gothic, which I finally got round to reading this week, cheered me up no end.

‘…money like that’s supposed to mean you can buy the best, best food, best cars, friends, lawyers brokers all these God damn doctors but the money attracts the worst so that’s what they buy, they buy the worst and the worst scare off the best…’

Maybe there’s something to be said for being hard-up after all.

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