87 books
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41 voters
1960
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Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admit
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― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
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Know it or not, man treads between twin abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.
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― Swords in the Mist
― Swords in the Mist
