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Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.

Joy Davidman

Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

Joy Davidman

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

Joy Davidman

Joy Davidman

Born: April 18, 1915

Died: July 13, 1960 (aged 45)

Bio: Helen Joy Davidman was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature in 1935.

Known for:

Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman

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