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Almost one in nine Americans—including one in eight children—live in poverty.
“wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.”
― Larger Than Life
― Larger Than Life
“The states that have taken in the most immigrants over the past half century have not grown poorer.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“My dearest husband, Can it really be ten long years since you sailed from Ithaca to join Agamemnon and the other Greek kings in their ignoble quest to bring Helen back from Troy? Was it a thousand ships which sailed, in the end? That’s what the bards sing now. A thousand ships, all sailing across the perilous oceans in hope of finding one man’s wife. It remains, I’m sure you agree, an astonishing state of affairs.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“Almost one in nine Americans—including one in eight children—live in poverty.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Something wicked this way comes, she thought, and wondered where that line was from.”
― Mask of the Deer Woman
― Mask of the Deer Woman
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