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“The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I”
― Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

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“Being poor is something like always being followed around by violins making “tense” movie music. You know that commercial where the band Survivor follows a guy around playing “Eye of the Tiger”? Yeah, it’s like that, but the musicians are invisible and they’re playing the shower scene from Psycho.”
― Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

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“I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don't pay a thing and a half this week instead of just one thing? It's not like the sacrifice will result in improved circumstances; the thing holding me back isn't that I blow five bucks at Wendy's. It's that now that I have proven that I am a Poor Person that is all that I am or ever will be. It is not worth it to me to live a bleak life devoid of small pleasures so that one day I can make a single large purchase. I will never have large pleasures to hold on to. There's a certain pull to live what bits of life you can while there's money in your pocket, because no matter how responsible you are you will be broke in three days anyway. When you never have enough money it ceases to have meaning. I imagine having a lot of it is the same thing.”
― Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

tags: finance, life, money, pleasures, poor, poverty

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