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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.
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  2. Chuck Palahniuk _ Diary

    Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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  3. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden

    My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
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  4. Howard Zinn _ A People's History Of The

    In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.
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  5. Douglas Coupland _ The Gum Thief

    People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
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  6. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
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  7. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
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  8. Jared Diamond

    In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
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  9. V.C. Andrews _ Pearl in the Mist

    Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
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  10. V.C. Andrews _ Petals on the Wind

    Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.
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  11. John Steinbeck _ The Grapes of Wrath

    Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.''We take a beatin' all the time.''I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.
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  12. Kate Horsley _ The Changeling

    the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.
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