Programming Quote by Ali Smith

“And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music…

— Ray Bradbury

“Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all…

— Martin Amis

“Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university.…

— Ian Rankin

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for…

— Stewart O'Nan

“Something Rich and Strange She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of…

— Ron Rash

“For instance, the headmistress, Miss Moore. I knew right away that she had come to Antigua from England, for she looked like a prune…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to…

— Angela Carter

“She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious,…

— Barbara Comyns

“...to her, all familiar responses smell of entrapment. Sharing an old joke, singing an old song - these are admissions of defeat, of being…

— Michel Faber

“Anne-Elisabeth had taken the music from Dr. Horvath and was looking through it. 'I see finger-cramping possibilities, William - lots of them,' she told…

— John Irving

“She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare…

— Christina Stead

“She had to remind herself that she was in recovery from being rich.”

— Suzanne Stroh