Guests Include

Famous quotes containing the words guests and/or include:

    When the guests have left, the host is at peace.
    Chinese proverb.

    My family’s lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor—hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...
    Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)