"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."

Hardship, Survival, Resilience, Humor, Work

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"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."

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"About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, 'Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of,' before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call."

Ashly Lorenzana, American Writer

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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

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"Where there is less pain, there is also less pay."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."

Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian Scientist

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"The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Hardship, Poverty, Reality, Life

"There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Hardship, Poverty, Heartbreak, Sadness, Loss

"Hardship makes the world obscure."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Hardship, World

"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

Liberty, Vigilance

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

Being,

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

Civilization, Evil, Heaven, Hell

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

War,

"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

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"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."

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