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Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty — Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With — For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind, Not Of Scene Or Of Routine. To Be Able To Break Out Of Its Dark Brown Sameness.

A Sharp Sense Of The Ironic Can Be The Equivalent Of The Faith That Moves Mountains. Far More Quicky Than Reason Or Logic, Irony Can Penetrate Rage And Puncture Self-pity.

Poor People Know Poor People, And Rich People Know Rich People. It Is One Of The Few Things La Rochefoucauld Did Not Say, But Then La Rochefoucauld Never Lived In The Bronx.

There Is Nothing That One Can Say About Acting, Writing, Producing Or Directing That Cannot Be Revoked In The Next Breath. Nothing Is Immutable. The Logic Of One Year Is A Folly Of The Next.

A Too Constant Preoccupation With Money May Seem To Indicate The Lack Of A Proper Sense Of Moral Values, But [let] Those Who Have Always Had Money . . . Be Without It For A While, And They Will Soon Discover How Quickly It Becomes Their Chief Concern.