“What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many
homes
were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how
many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families
hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were
broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many
people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would
triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men
poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were
unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards,
loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people
in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had
never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths?
How many best families were worst families and how many good people were
bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might
be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an
old violinist or sculptor somewhere.”
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