When you hear her say, ' What else can an old woman doon hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky, Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes. And you look onthe cracks that begin around her eyesspread beyond her skin And the hills crack. And the temples crack. And the sky falls with a plateglass clatter around the shatter proof cronewho stands alone. And you are reducedto so much small changein her hand. Arun Kolatkar
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.
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Rick Bragg
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
[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...
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Linda Tirado
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
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Victor Hugo
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.
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J.k. Rowling
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When you hear her say, ' What else can an old woman doon hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky, Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes. And you look onthe cracks that begin around her eyesspread beyond her...
