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They agonise in sordid
tenements,
with children stabled worse than sheep
or kye.
O, how can grace or peace or health abide
such poverty?

— Helen Cruickshank

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But where this passionate self will go,
God knows,
Who knows whence the lightning comes, and
whither it goes.

While I am not teetotal, a drunk woman I find revolting and Burns orgies detestable.

Octobiography (1976)

Criticism in Scotland, of books as well as plays, is often bedevilled because we all know each other too well. The clique can cast its chill over its rivals; the claque delude with false praise.

Octobiography (1976)

Sae smoor yersel', my man,
Pit oot yer licht,
Grey hair that's tow
To a lassie's lowe
Is an unco sicht.

I am not asked out to drinking parties and have never been in a Rose Street pub. I can't be a poet.

Octobiography (1976)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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