#tin

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#definite #medium #rational #real #representative

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#bit #child #dinner #dinner table #directing

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#captivating #character #dramatic #entertainers #finding

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#being #circulating #did #ever #invested

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm. ↗

— Eddie Mathews

#called #hitch #hitting #only #rhythm

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#child #company #delicious #especially #extremely

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single