Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!