“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.” WayWantWritingSelfStatesOrderSituationPovertyConstant Author:Tom Waits
“Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.” ShouldFirstsHandsForceDarkPovertyReadyDespairStrongerConstantHungerRelaxLatterSpokesCompanionTwinsPeasantsBlacknessElbowsOne DirectionHopes And FearsSharpness Book:Nectar in a sieve and related readings Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings
“I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.” ThinkingKnowsMeanChildrenProblemYoungUsedChallengesPovertyStruggleSolutionsConstantObligationMaking MoneyGet AwayYoung WomenConstant Struggle Author:Leslie Parrish
“I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.” IfsYearsBookPovertyProudTiredConstantHorribleAll TimeBrokeEmbarrassedDesperationHighwaysDownersBeing Broke Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.” SaidPainVoiceWealthPovertyMirrorsConstantUselessSailMetamorphosisWealth And Poverty Author:Roberto Bolano