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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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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Gerald Early
Born:
April 21, 1952
(age 73)
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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