I Was Depressed, But That Was A Side Issue. This Was More Like Closing Up Shop, Or, Say, Having A Big Garage Sale, Where You Look At Everything You've Bought In Your Life, And You Remember How Much It Meant To You, And Now You Just Tag It For A Quarter And Watch 'em Carry It Off, And You Don't Care. That's More Like How It Was.

-Jane Smiley

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I Was Depressed, But That Was A

Jane Smiley

I Was Depressed, But That Was A Side Issue. This Was More Like Closing Up Shop, Or, Say, Having A Big Garage Sale, Where You Look At Everything You've Bought In Your Life, And You Remember How Much It Meant To You, And Now You Just Tag It For A Quarter And Watch 'em Carry It Off, And You Don't Care. That's More Like How It Was.

Topic

Closing Up

Issues

Watches

Americans Took A Great Deal Too Much Credit For Creating Wealth, When Most Of The Time They Had Really Just Been Living Off Natural Bounty Unprecedented In The History Of The World.

Creating

Too Much

United States