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kleinbl00  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Favourite "Three Kinds of People in the World" Quotations. What Are Yours?

    An acquaintance had cautioned her long before, when it first started coming in, and she had confided how uneasy the money made her. He said "there is a saying, who knows from what culture, that people relate to money in one of three ways: one, like blood, to nourish; two, like sperm, to create; or three, like shit - to be gotten rid of..." they both knew she stood firmly behind door number three.

Julia Philips, You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, pp. 98