"Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence."

-- Louis O. Kelso

#Politics Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Affluence Quotes

“Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.”
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”
“What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.”
“These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.”
“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?”
“Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.”
“[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.”
“Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. You can't really do that with a novel, but with a story you're just left hanging.”

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