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“I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.”

“…and knew that I had come out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later.”

“…but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.“