“I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.” GivingWritingUseSeemsLanguagePovertyModernKingsGive MeSentencesAwfulProseVowUse Of Language Author:Martin Amis
“I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.” MeanChoicesLibertyPovertyImpressionAwfulServitude Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.” IfsFeelsWellsMadeDifferencesPoorPovertyDiseaseWeakAwfulHospitalsFarmsCommunicable Diseases Book:The Cape Ann: A Novel Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel
“There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.” IdeasKidsWhitePovertyGoneBritishHungryUnhappyAwfulRoof Author:Richey Edwards
“Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.” YearsChildrenCoursesPovertyMiddleAwfulBubblesParallelsApartheid Author:St. Lucia
“Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.” IfsHardAmericaWalksCitiesPovertyStreetsModernAreasArguingAwfulBeijingAppalachiaRural AreasLack Of EducationRural America Author:Michael Bloomberg