Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot, trans. E.K. Brown, Dorothea Walter, and John Watkins (New York: The Modern Library, 1950).
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 4
Reads eerily current, like yesterday's headlines in the political section of the national news. (Well, it did for me, anyway!)
Does Vautrin have orange skin?
That’s what I was thinking. It’s unmistakably for our time.
Oops — I didn’t see your comment, Pete. No, but he does have red hair, under a wig.
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