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3. “Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’ Paul McCartney I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.”
Jimmy Carter
Beatles, Materialism, Humor, Creativity, Myth
7. “I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.” V.S. Naipaul Identity, Materialism, Self-Expression, Society, Alienation
11. “If what most people take for granted were really true – if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now. If.” Thomas Merton Happiness, Materialism, Self-Discovery, Spiritual Truth, Reflection
Materialism Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’ Paul McCartney I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.”
Jimmy Carter Beatles, Materialism, Humor, Creativity, Myth
7. “I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.”
V.S. Naipaul Identity, Materialism, Self-Expression, Society, Alienation
11. “If what most people take for granted were really true – if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now. If.”
Thomas Merton Happiness, Materialism, Self-Discovery, Spiritual Truth, Reflection
