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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.


Anatole Broyard

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HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD