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The new American finds his

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
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Even while I protest the

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
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How can we live without

How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?
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The profession of book writing

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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Lord, how the day passes!

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
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Money does not change the

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Most people live ninety percent

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
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I hate cameras. They are

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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In every bit of honest

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
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