“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.”
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.