Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious. - Paul Theroux - Quotesmemo.com

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I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"

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Paul Theroux

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

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