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Edgar Rice Burroughs

"I write to escape; to escape poverty."

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"I write to escape; to escape poverty."

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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."

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"They'll take everything, even your tears."

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"Hunger makes a thief of any man."

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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

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"It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually."

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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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"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
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