Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

Martin Amis
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  1. It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. - Rick Bragg

  2. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. - Sherrilyn Kenyon

  3. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to... - Linda Tirado

  4. A man may beg, but a woman has to sell. - Victor Hugo

  5. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. - J.k. Rowling

More Quotes By Martin Amis
  1. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

  2. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

  3. The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

  4. It is straightforward–and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

  5. My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

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