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DEFINITION OF AMERICAN SUCCESS

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our our arms farther....  And one fine morning---  So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gastby



"They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness,  or whatever it was that kept them together,  and let other people clean up the mess they had made." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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"I don't want realism. I want magic! [Mitch laughs] Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them.  I don't tell the truth, I tell what //ought//to be truth.   And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! -- Dont turn the light on!" --Tennessee Williams, //A Streetcar Named Desire// <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">does what he wants to do ." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Bob Dylan

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reflection on the Definition of American Success

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