Santiago Durango Quotes

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I don't come from a lot of money.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I am definitely not rich.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.