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"I abhor waste. I am troubled by a society that is driven by built-in obsolescence."

"It was June 1952. The original plan--for Sylvia and me, together with our friends Sid and Barbara, to learn how to drive, buy a car and travel across the country during the summer--was scrapped."

"As I put together 'my story' it occurred to me that it is like the resumes we prepared when looking for a job..."

"In 1952, I was working as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, ILGWU, which represented custom tailors and alterations workers in New York City."

"Over the years, I have written about various people I have known—friends, colleagues, etc. Each of us is unique, and I have tried to find and describe that uniqueness."

"When I was a little boy, my mother told me about her life growing up in Vaslui, and her family. I wasn’t very interested."

"Growing up in the Bronx, I believed that Jewish families didn’t have pets."

"My wife Fran takes great pride in her plant management."

"I love to take pictures. In fact, over the past 50 years, I have never gone on a trip or to a 'special occasion' [...] without my camera. If my friends or family are there, or someone else’s friends or family, I am there taking pictures."

"I always liked the line from Moliere’s Bourgois Gentilhomme (?) where he discovers that he is speaking prose. This came to mind as David is working on a paper about Jews and blacks and Italians in New York and other urban centers. What David is…