and if a double-decker bus crashes into us to die by your side such a heavenly way to die
Forseeing some dismal Marxian Utopia as the alternative, the educated man prefers to keep things as they are.
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
He had a gift for phrases. He had managed to keep his brain intact and alert, and so nothing could make him succumb to poverty. He might be ragged and cold, or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.
-Down and Out In Paris and London (1933), George Orwell
I'm obsessed with The Queen Is Dead. I've been working on summer homework. I've gotten four nights of dismal sleep (6-ish hours; I don't even fare that badly during the school year). Oh, and I'm fat. If you'd like the unabridged version of this update, feel free to IM me. :-D
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
He had a gift for phrases. He had managed to keep his brain intact and alert, and so nothing could make him succumb to poverty. He might be ragged and cold, or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.
-Down and Out In Paris and London (1933), George Orwell
I'm obsessed with The Queen Is Dead. I've been working on summer homework. I've gotten four nights of dismal sleep (6-ish hours; I don't even fare that badly during the school year). Oh, and I'm fat. If you'd like the unabridged version of this update, feel free to IM me. :-D