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"I feel that I have known Irving Howe all my life, although I may have been in the same room with him five times and exchanged no more than a few sentences with him each time."

"In 1933, I was five years old. My father had died in 1931, and my mother was finally able to come to grips with the fact that we should move from our four-room Beck Street apartment in the Bronx, to a smaller apartment that would cost less."

"When I was about nine years old, my mother began a routine which we followed until I was a teen-ager..."

"As soon as school ended in June of 1942, I started to look for a summer job."

"Being poor isn't so bad when most of the people around you are poor."

"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…

"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."

Another (later?) draft of #44 Music in My Life

"It was 9:55 AM on Thursday August 14, 2008, and I had just returned from saying goodbye to my 1999 Toyota Camry."

Draft of "#101 CARS"