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The Fifties
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In the years following the traumatic experiences of the Depression and World War II, the American Dream was to exercise personal freedom not in social and political terms, but rather in economic ones.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
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“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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