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The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
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“Difficulty shows what men are.”
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“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
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A group to read the General Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography, and History Books that won or were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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