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"I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD..."

"The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams."

"In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny."

"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."

"Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic."

"I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal."

"Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present..."

"One of the things, though, that has always afflicted the American reality and the American vision is this aversion to history. History is not something you read about in a book, history is not even th..."

"Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America—which means that at some leve..."

"I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building where Orthodox Jews still lived, so they shut down an elevator on Saturdays. In the tax..."