"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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Source: National Book Award Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1953.
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