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In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country.

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Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

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I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

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Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheime…

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Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

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I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

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There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

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We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

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The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between …

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Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

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