“Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope…the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.”

Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XXXV (p. 183)

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American writer, journalist 1904–1988

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