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> [“In India, as in other poor countries, we have a line that is invisible and abstract and yet more powerful and pervasive than anything the West or the Japanese have invented. It is called the poverty line. Above the poverty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-nagarkar/in-india-as-in-other-poor-countries-we-have-a-line-that-is-invisible/)

[Kiran Nagarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-nagarkar/)

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> [Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwood-anderson/those-who-are-to-follow-the-arts-should-have-a-training-in-what-is/)

[Sherwood Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwood-anderson/)

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