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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."
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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
Life
"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
Life
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
Power
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
Life
"When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children."
Life
"We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know."
Self-Improvement
"I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing."
Writing
"In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see."
Life
"He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Fear
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