Near the start of Chapter 9:
Mike [a notorious and revered painter] was born in the Irish slums that used to exist around Ninety-sixth Street and Columbus Avenue in New York. He has, therefore, the poignant love of money that’s reserved only for people who’ve known poverty. Rich people respect money because it’s their safety, but to poor people money is freedom. Never forget that when you analyze the behavior of someone who used to be poor; there’s a friskiness about such persons which is only the lightness of limb that comes from taking off chains.
p. 103
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