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Caryl Churchill
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“How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?”
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“I was seized again with a desperate longing for the absolute.”
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“The more you don't do it, the more it's fun to read about.”
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“On the floor of life the commodity is money. / You can buy and sell money, you can buy and sell absence of money, debt, which used to strike me as funny. / For some it's hedging, for most it's speculation. / In New York they've just introduced a futures contract in inflation. / (Pity it's not Bolivian inflation, which hit forty thousand per cent.)”
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“... England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”
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“One thing one learned from one's colonial masters. / One makes money from other people's disasters.”
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“I'd begun to think you were a bit like God — / You make things happen but you don't exist.”
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“So think a billion, that's a thousand million, and have you ever tried / To think a trillion? Think a trillion dollars a day. / That's the gross national product of the USA. / There's people who say the American eagle is more like a vulture. / I say don't piss on your own culture. / Naturally there's a whole lot of greed and / That's no problem because money buys freedom.”
Caryl Churchill, English playwright
(1938)