Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.
The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.
The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth,...
She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.
the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
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Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
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It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
