tropesarenotbad:

egmon73:

disastergeek:

aura218:

Sometimes around like 95 he said he didn’t need more money. He’s given away literally millions to his town (he had a little league field(?) build so his kid’s team could play) and to other notable charities for decades. He said, and has written in his books, that there’s only so much money a person needs and the rest is just vanity. He was taught that as a child and lived it as a multi-millionare (which he never truly was – bc he gave it away).

He and his family lived in the same modest suburban house in the same modest Maine town since the 70s.

And then there’s Jeff Bezos.

sometimes is heart-warming to see that indeed good people still exist

Literally the only reason some short stories aren’t available is they have contracts for movies on them already, so they can’t be produced by anybody else. It’s not just “some” of his short stories. It’s “as many short stories that don’t have contracts on them already as I can put up.”

He currently (August 6, 2018) has 31 available