“This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.”
Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 9
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American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“We are born too late to see the beginning, and we did too soon to see the end of many things.”
On the Study and Use of History
Hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services, February 17, 2000 http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/bank/hba62930.000/hba62930_0.HTM#53
2000s, 2001-2005
Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir (2008), p. 192.
Context: I built not by parental edict, not under threat, but because of my own native yearning. This was a giant step toward seeing more. Across the country our elders were battling the shades that shrank our minds and abbreviated our world. We thought the corner was cool, but more than that we deeply believed that we could do no better, that this tiny parcel was all we deserved in this world of sin.
“It did something to me. I thought it was the most glorious melody.”
Regarding the song "Memory"; as quoted in "Cover Story; Broadway's 'Cats': Restaged for Eternity (And We Thought They Were Kidding!)" by Peter Marks in The New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05EEDB133FF932A35752C1A96E958260 (1 November 1998)