“Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.”

—  Charles A. Reich , book The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter X : Beyond Youth: Recovery Of Self, p. 279

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