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Quote by Greil Marcus
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the strug

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus

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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others – Sir Thomas More

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So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold. – John Edward Masefield

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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. – Leon Trotsky

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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And theres a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding — that existence is a struggle. – Harvey Keitel

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