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Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
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It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
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That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.
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Lancaster, California... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa'.
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I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
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December 5, 1934
Died:
December 23, 2021
(aged 87)
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