[Ads-l] background of a quote

[Laurence Horn]

"Love will get you through times of no money better than money will get you
through times of no love"

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 8:55 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> But notice the swapping of order /superiority between the two quotations.
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> Mark A. Mandel
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> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 8:40 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sometime before 1984, Jerry Pournelle (an SF author who was a NYT
> > bestseller but never won a Hugo award) said "Money will get you through
> > times of no Hugos better than Hugos will get you through times of no
> money."
> >
> > He was preceded by cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, whose character
> > Freewheelin' Franklin Freak (of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) said
> > "Grass will carry you through times of no money better than money will
> > carry you through times of no grass." (1969 or before) (usually quoted as
> > "dope will get you through  . . .")
> >
> > Is the Dope/grass version the ur-text?  or are they both riffing off
> > something earlier, of which I am not aware?
> >
> >
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