"America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation."

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Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

Henry Steele Commager

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“I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.”
“I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality.”
“I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.”
“If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.”
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
“I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.”
“Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.”
“Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.”

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