It's cultural. gilmoure felt, correctly, that he didn't need to finish the quote, since he could assume that I knew the quote, who said it (Tevye the Milkman, from the stories of Sholom Alechem), what kind of person the quoter was, and what the attitudes towards money that are expressed by it are.
The quote, in that context, means almost precisely the opposite of what the first half of the quote means alone.
It's a recognition that poverty shouldn't be a source of shame -- but that it nonetheless is.
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Date: 2006-11-17 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-17 01:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-17 03:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-17 05:21 pm (UTC)Ain't that the truth.
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-17 08:52 pm (UTC)"There's no shame in being poor"? Try waying "being poor in its self is not a reason to be ashamed". And even then, it never helped me to hear that.
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Date: 2006-11-17 08:58 pm (UTC)...it's no great honor either.
So speaks the man living in a mud brick house.
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Date: 2006-11-19 04:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-19 05:36 am (UTC)The quote, in that context, means almost precisely the opposite of what the first half of the quote means alone.
It's a recognition that poverty shouldn't be a source of shame -- but that it nonetheless is.
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Date: 2006-11-18 01:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-19 02:40 am (UTC)