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two million Eastern European Jews emigrated to America between the early nineteenth century and 1914 in increasing waves, looking for security and better lives. Whereas Polish, Italian, Chinese, or German families tended to send out young
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“It was a world of fine shadings and the nicest proportions, where impulse seldom set a blundering foot, and the feast of reason was undisturbed by an intemperate flow of soul. To such a banquet his wife naturally remained uninvited. The diet would have disagreed with her, and she would probably have objected to the other guests.”
― The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
― The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
“Daddy always said Grandpa was so tight that when he blinked the skin on his pecker rolled back.”
― The Thicket
― The Thicket
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“the only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
Impossible, of course.”
― The Blind Assassin
Impossible, of course.”
― The Blind Assassin
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