I could tell you that those wonderful stories were 90% Buster's... I was often ashamed to take the money, much less the credit.
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Clyde Bruckman, co-writer on several of Keaton's films, as quoted in "The Lyric Poet Of The Silent Screen : A Profile of Buster Keaton" by Chris Wood at FIlmMonthly.com (16 July 2001)Buster Keaton
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The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence. Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, and these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion.
James (critic) Wood
The first thing [in credit] is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.
J. P. Morgan
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
Hunter S. Thompson
"Pirates are perhaps the greatest invention of Earth people," Elizabeth interrupted loftily, "and their pirate stories are wonderful entertainment for small children. We have to give Earth people credit for that, they invented pirates."
R. A. Lafferty
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
Henry Miller
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