Beggars Ride

Beggars Ride is a 1996 science fiction novel by noted author Nancy Kress.

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Famous quotes containing the words beggars and/or ride:

    ““Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
    Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,”
    Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
    “And cannot have a humorous happy speech.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To sum up:
    1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
    2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
    3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)