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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten... everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
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Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Gerald Early
Born:
April 21, 1952
(age 74)
Bio:
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic.
Known for:
The Culture of Bruising (1994)
One nation under a groove (1995)
A Level Playing Field (2011)
This is where I came in (2003)
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