"Ormund: But being rich isn't simply the opposite of being poor. It's not really worth much -- being rich. Half the time there's a thick glass between you and most of the fun and friendliness of the world. There's something devilishly dull about most of the rich. Too much money seems to take the taste and colour out of things. It oughtn't to do, but it does -- damn it! Dr. Görtler: But power -- you have that, haven't you? Ormund: Yes, and that's a very different thing. Dr. Görtler: Ah! -- you like power. Ormund: Well, you get some fun out of it. I don't mean bullying a lot of poor devils. but putting ideas into action. And not being at the end of somebody else's bit of string."
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I Have Been Here Before
I Have Been Here Before is a play by English writer J. B. Priestley, written in 1937 and was first produced at the Royalty Theatre in London's West End, on Wednesday, 22 September 1937 by Lewis Casson. This is one of Priestley's "Time Plays" and was based in part on P.D. Ouspensky's theories of time and recurrence.
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