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“If theyd caused you pain, Id never have been able to live with myself, he said as he backed up a step.You might want to find another place to sit. Those idiots could cook up a plan for revenge. I c...”
“People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich.”
“I remember one time we were walking into a grocery store and an old man was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. I asked my dad if we could give him some money and he told me no, that he works ha...”
“don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the manyand she is each of us”
“Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent drift of blinding snow. I saw the high hotel windows, the lights, the sh...”
“I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.”
“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and its own particular movements which he tried hard to follow. He had learned ...”
“When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless.”
“I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.”
“I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.”
“Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.”
“Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.”
“Its a full-time job being homeless. Its a full-time job being poor.”
“If they’d caused you pain, I’d never have been able to live with myself,” he said as he backed up a step.“You might want to find another place to sit. Those idiots could cook up a plan for revenge....”
“It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.”
