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William Seabrook Quotes

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“Often it had been easier to sign a check than write a letter.”
— William Seabrook, No Hiding Place An Autobiography
Tagged: Life
“The only way to find the answer is to get all those things, the shiny girl, the shiny car, and the shiny velvet collar and the god-damned shiny pointy patent-leather shoes which I know I don't want but must wear if I want any of it—and when I've got them maybe I'll know whether I want them or not.”
— William Seabrook, No Hiding Place An Autobiography
Tagged: Life
“All that belongs to me, and I can keep it all my life if I want to. It took me some time, sitting there, to make myself believe it. That was the main thing I'd hoped to accomplish. Fred and the advertising agency and the gold letter on the door of our office had never become real to me—and I knew that unless I could make myself know and feel in some way that the thing was real, I might go through my whole life in it as sort of exteriorized dream—somebody else's dream again, and maybe die old, fat and rich without ever having live or been myself at all—without ever knowing whether I like it or not.”
— William Seabrook, No Hiding Place An Autobiography
Tagged: Life, Dreams
“The guilty realization hadn't yet come to me during all those years in Atlanta I was masquerading, playing a false-faced, false role, involving the hopes and lives of others in my sham. I hadn't been a conscious hypocrite, or consciously dishonesty. Nor had I won my position friends, the trust of my partner and associates, the love of Kate and her family, by any spurious pretensions which they or my own gospel-preaching father could have deemed devious or dishonorable. The guilt lay in the fact that I'd had no right to seek or try to win, or to accept a share in all those bright and shining toys unless i knew they were the toys I wanted–unless I knew I wouldn't break or burn them. For they were more than toys to all these other people...I was being false, and worse than false to inner dream that had dominated my childhood and adolescence, and that sooner or later, for good and bad, would dominate my life.”
— William Seabrook, No Hiding Place An Autobiography
Tagged: Life
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