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1 " Ever since this day I have dreamt sometimes... I, a street rat in my soul, dream even now... that if it were possible to life this littered, paved Manhattan from the earth... and all its torn and dripping pipes and conduits and tunnels and tracks and cables--all of it, like a scab from new skin underneath--how seedlings would sprout and freshets bubble up, and brush and grasses would grow over the rolling hills... "
― E.L. Doctorow , The Waterworks
2 " He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were. "
3 " But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth. "
