"Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."

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George Orwell

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.”
“I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.”
“I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.”
“Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.”
“Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.”
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.269, Random House
“The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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