Poor People Quotes

“The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.”
― William T. Vollmann, Poor People

“More aid, better directed! Couldn't we all use that? And what if the universe enacts less aid, more poorly directed?”
― William T. Vollmann, Poor People

“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.”
― William T. Vollmann, Poor People

“The lot of the poor can easily be imagined, runs a textbook on Filipino economics. They are forced to eat unwholesome and inadequate food, wear ragged clothes, and live in unhealthful surroundings. When they get sick, they cannot afford medical care. The textbook continues: They are responsive to the subversive preachings of wild-eyed agitators who make extravagant promises of social amelioration.”
― William T. Vollmann, Poor People