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  1. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    When the Great War came he would wage it with the fury of the affronted. Neither Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin, who was to die in a dogfight over France, nor the old Bull Moose himself, who was to die in grief not long thereafter, would survive Wilson's abhorrence of war.
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  2. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    Goldman sent off a letter to Evelyn: I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with the veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich."
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  3. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    Suppose I could prove to you that there are universal patterns of order and repetition that give meaning to the activity of this planet. Suppose I could demonstrate that you yourself are an instrumentation in our modern age of trends
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  4. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    Women went into hospitals to die of burst bladders, collapsed lungs, overtaxed hearts and meningitis of the spine. There
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  5. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    Do not play this piece fast It is never right to play Ragtime fast.… -SCOTT JOPLIN
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  6. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    support of the Mexican Revolution. He hadn't known
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  7. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium.
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  8. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    Morgan had ordered a light lunch. They did not say much as they dined without other
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  9. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    the forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else.
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  10. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    For a moment he thought the chair was aligned, but then he decided it was not. He moved it another turn to the right. He tried sitting in the chair now but it still felt peculiar. He turned it again. Eventually he made a complete circle and still he could not find the proper alignment for the chair.
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  11. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
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  12. E.L. Doctorow _ Ragtime

    So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.
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