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The teen-age years have been at once the despair and fascination of novelists and playwrights. They are the gawkiest years of life, and the most precarious, with stirrings of beauty and desire and adventure, all of them this side of the articulate.

— Max Lerner Public Journal (1945)

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To humanize or glorify a man is one thing; to grasp his place in the history of the human spirit is quite another.

Public Journal (1945)

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The Unfinished Country (1959)

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy (1939)

Life is a protracted struggle against the Adversary, who is man himself.

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