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But the idea of America, the promise of America: this I clung to with a stubbornness that surprised even me. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—that was my America.
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
Yasaman’s 2025 Year in Books
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