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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
(Jill Robinson (b. 1936), U.S. novelist. As quoted in American Dreams, book 1 part 1, by Studs Terkel (1980).
The daughter of movie producer Dore Schary, Robinson had grown up in Hollywood and was referring obliquely to the movie industry's preference for happy endings.)
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In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. In Drear-nighted December (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Italian Journey, Rome, September 6, 1787 (1829).)
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
(Michael Herr (b. 1940), U.S. journalist. "Colleagues," sct. 3, Dispatches (1977).)
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All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. John of Gaunt, in Richard II, act 1, sc. 3, l. 275-6.
Advising his banished son, Bolingbroke.)
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
(Michael Herr (b. 1940), U.S. journalist. "Colleagues," sct. 3, Dispatches (1977).)
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
(Jill Robinson (b. 1936), U.S. novelist. As quoted in American Dreams, book 1 part 1, by Studs Terkel (1980).
The daughter of movie producer Dore Schary, Robinson had grown up in Hollywood and was referring obliquely to the movie industry's preference for happy endings.)
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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
(Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Anna Karenina (1873-76).
Opening words.)
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