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"a thin man sitting alone at a table beckoned to me and reached out for one of my papers. As I stood there and waited in suspense, he opened it from the back, studying the racing results a few moments, and then returned it. And then he gave me a dime and wanted no newspaper. As was in heaven strolling on air as I went back outside. I was in love with a world that had such humans in it."
— Jan 20, 2021 07:17PM
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"if a person did have to grow up in a slum...he could imagine no better one"
— Jan 29, 2021 11:11PM
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"I became, in a first person account–not Abraham Lincoln, which would've been ordinary–but the metal in the gun that was used to shoot him. I was born, I remember, in a mine in Chile, in a shovelful of iron ore. Papers like these were read aloud as outstanding, which was the reward I aimed for. I very strongly did want to excel and be noticed."
— Jan 29, 2021 10:56PM
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"Each of these benign surprises affecting me was a rapture someone born rich is not likely to ever enjoy. There are some pleasures money can't buy"
— Jan 29, 2021 10:52PM
Alex
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"I've learned that few pleasures are so thoroughly reinforcing to the spirit as the arrival of unexpected money"
— Jan 29, 2021 10:51PM
