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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"From the age of 10, my mother made it clear to me that I had to go to Shul on Rosh Hashana--Yom Kippur. She did not go to Shul. I went alone."

"I have been thinking about all the places I have lived over my 81 years."

"I have known Alex Roth for more than 75 years, since the mid 30s."