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24 voters
1920s
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Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
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― Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
― Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
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How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-thousandth of what we were lasts. We send all those bottles out into the ocean and so few wash up on shore.
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― Almost a Family: A Memoir
― Almost a Family: A Memoir
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