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materialism

“Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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tags fiction, love, materialism, society

“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags materialism

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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tags choice, freedom, iconic, materialism

“You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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tags iconic, materialism, perspective, society

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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tags materialism, short

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

-Ernest Hemmingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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tags inspirational, materialism

“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

-Aldous Huxley, Island
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tags nature, society

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