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Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience. People have quite enough reality to bear, by simply getting through their lives, raising their children, dealing with the eternal conundrums of birth, taxes, and death
Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience. People have quite enough reality to bear, by simply getting through their lives, raising their children, dealing with the eternal conundrums of birth, taxes, and death
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Someone once said to me
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that the people in general cannot bear very much reality
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He meant by this that they prefer fantasy
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to a truthful recreation of their experience
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People have quite enough reality to bear
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by simply getting through their lives
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raising their children
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dealing with the eternal conundrums
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of birth taxes and death
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Movie Summary
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
