Monday, 11 February 2013

If you leave something on the floor when you go out, you know that it will still be there when you get back

As my mother said soon afterwards, ‘the really bloody thing about being poor is that if you leave something on the floor when you go out, you know that it will still be there when you get back’

D. Athill, Instead of a letter (1963), Kindle ed. loc. 450

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