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  <title><![CDATA[In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1978</original-publication-year>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 15 18:34:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book of short stories by Depression Era writer Delmore Schwartz specifically to read the title story &quot;In Dreams Begin Responsibilities&quot; because I couldn't find it on the internet.  Luckily I found it at the library.  I'm realizing the less you pay for books the better, and anyon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24575120">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 17 18:21:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The wickedness of delusion and pastoral dreamscapes intersect with the beating heart of the young person's desire to make yr own way, the spirit of seeing the world through two wide-open eyes and a dash of hope for a world more tolerant. I always come back to the stories contained herein. Why? Just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24752861">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 12 11:51:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title story is a forgotten gem - simple in the telling, but prompting all kinds of philosophical reality/imagination specualtion. We're used to the metaphor now that life can be like a movie: Schwartz came up with it before anyone else I know. Some of the other stories took longer to make an imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49049314">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delmore Schwartz stories and poems are overwhelmingly honest.  His style is classic, almost academic, yet there are surprising turns in the narrative with sentences written in a sweeping minimalist style standing comfortably next to the lyrical. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The world is a marriage of convenience,&quot; said Laura drunkenly, &quot;the world is a shot-gun marriage. The world is a sordid match for money. The world is a misalliance. Every birthday is a funeral and every funeral is a great relief.&quot;<br/><br/>File under: the way you want to imagi...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if every story I try to write is just a pale imitation of the title story here. It's one of my longterm favorites.]]></body>
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    <review id="50405252">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  So far burn full painful. Done reading. tears...]]></body>
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    <review id="4694145">
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    <body><![CDATA[Just delved into this collection of short stories.  Steve Seidel, director of Project Zero at Harvard, mentioned the title story in a lecture I recently heard him give, and it piqued my interest.  Not sure anyone reads Schwartz much anymore, but the first story in the collection, the title story, wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4694145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34084387">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 25 15:52:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of short stories written about 1930s New York. Many of the characters are Jewish or middle class and often are simple stories about families, young people trying to figure out what to do with themselves post-college, or random somewhat surreal stories. I found out about this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34084387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17947107">
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this guy taught Lou Reed...  but that ain't just what makes him good.  I thought the stories were tragic and alive.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one in that category if I read it now, not sure how many stars I'd give it.]]></body>
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    <review id="6726647">
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;title track&quot; is amazing. The others have been up and down. ]]></body>
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