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"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."
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"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
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"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
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"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."
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"Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains."
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"Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks."
Power
"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."
Music
"When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper."
Relationship
"It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."
Art
"But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title."
God
"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."
Happiness
"There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily."
Writing
"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."
Life
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
Ambition
"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
Marriage
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