# Quote — R. A. Lafferty, Arrive at Easterwine

> "Oh, I cannot abide these complacent clods," I exclaim. "I cannot relate to these opulent oafs who are laughing in the streets. They are not high enough or low enough. For my love I must find the poor, the deprived, the fornicators, the addicts, the drunkards, the unwashed, ..."
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> "Oh, these are the poor," the clod told me. "This is the poorest street in town, Index Y-Z. It's hard to tell them apart now except that the poor spend more ostentatiously than the rich do."

- Author: [R. A. Lafferty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty.md)
- Book: [Arrive at Easterwine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine.md)
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