Нефть! (Эптон Синклер) книга, цитаты

It was a curious thing — the nature of women! They seemed so gentle and impressionable; but it was the pliability of rubber, or of water — that comes right back the way it was before!

You lived in a little narrow circle of your own consciousness, and, as people said, what you didn't know didn't hurt you.

Some people hate the radical movement because they don't understand it, and some because they do.

By God, if having money means anything to me, it means I don't have to lie any more.

money by itself is nothing, to accomplish anything takes money plus management.

I simply have to know all about love, and how can I learn if I don't practice?

the same blind and stupid world that was killing millions of people; the whole thing was a chaos of cruelty, and it didn't matter what you did, or which side won.

«What is it you want to know?»
«Well, that's something you can't say; you don't know just what you'll get till you've got it. But I have a feeling, I want to know more about things.»

I want us to promise to be happy! Any time we can't be happy, let's quit, and not have any fuss! Let's be sensible, and not go crazy with jealousy, and torment each other.

«Oh, money, money, always money! We all of us have too much, and don't know how to buy happiness with it!»

It was her business to be young in both body and spirit

Men and women are not bodies only, and cannot be satisfied with delights of the body only. Men ans women are minds, and have to have harmony of ideas. Can they be bored with each other's ideas, and still be just as much in love.

Man is a gregarious animal, and it is hard not to do what everybody you know is doing!

What was the use of having a lot of money if you didn't have a good time with it?

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