I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and … - Alfred Kazin

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American teens have the worst of all worlds. . . Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.

Alfred Kazin

I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.

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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

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We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

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Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

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To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

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