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His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
Go, seeker, if you will, throughout the land and you will find us burning in the night.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
To believe that new monsters will arise as vicious as the old, to believe that the great Pandora's Box of human frailty, once opened, will never show a diminution of its ugly swarm, is to help, by just that much, to make it so forever.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
To a future world,— inhabited, no doubt, by a less acute and understanding race of men, — all this may seem a trifle strange. If so, that will be because the world of the future will have forgotten what it was like to live in 1929.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time -- back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
So, then, to every man his chance—to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity—to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him — this, seeker, is the promise of America.
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)