What is cheap?

Famous quotes containing the word cheap:

    His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?
    Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    ‘Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the
    afternoon I climbed up a ladder—he as a cheap cabin in the
    country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.
    Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    And suddenly, to be dying
    Is not a little or mean or cheap thing,
    Only wearying, the heat unbearable ...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)