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He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That__ what it__ like to be rich.Here__ what it__ like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can__ find a job because there aren__ any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can__ possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don__ go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you__l see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.

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Tom Franklin

Poachers

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The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything they do keeps you down. They'll forgive you for anything. Rob, rape, pillage, and kill, and they'll defend you to yourself. They understand all outrages, and all your failings and faults, too. Perfect! You can go on that way forever. What do they care? Excuse me: they do care. They want it that way. How would they make a living, these servants of the poor, if there were no poor? What enabled me to rise above all the people who don't know enough to come in out of the rain is that one day I looked face to face at a man who hated half of everything I was and had the courage to tell me so. I remember his very words. He said, 'What you're doing is hideous--a perfect way to die young. Unless you want to live sweetly only in the hereafter, you ought to learn how to do the right thing.'" The doctor stopped what he was doing, dropped his hand to his sides, and looked directly at Peter Lake. "I hate the poor. Look what they do to themselves. How could you not hate them, unless you thought that they should be like this.

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Mark Helprin

Winter's Tale

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The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying __epers_ we would understand __utcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities_ but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. Excluded as they were from the flock, all of them were ready to hear, or to produce, every sermon that, harking back to the words of Christ, would condemn the behaviour of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their punishment one day. The powerful have always realised this. The recovery of the outcasts demanded a reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine. This is the illusion of heresy. Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox. The faith a movement proclaims doesn__ count: what counts is the hope it offers.