“Bad, I thought, looking around me, that I’d accumulated so much. A man should never own more stuff than he can carry in his hands at a dead run. It was bad, but it had happened.”

Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 230)

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