the knowledge that I've got enough...

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True story, Word of Honor:

Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer

now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire

on Shelter Island.

I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel

to know that our host only yesterday

may have made more money

than your novel 'Catch-22'

has earned in its entire history?"

And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."

And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"

And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."

Not bad! Rest in peace!"

[Kurt Vonnegut, The New Yorker, May 16th, 2005]

 

 

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