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"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"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!"
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
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"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."
"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
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