We had never developed a sense of history as such; all we knew, if we ever thought about it, was that there had been others before us and that we wer… - Walter Tevis

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We had never developed a sense of history as such; all we knew, if we ever thought about it, was that there had been others before us and that we were better than they. But no one was ever encouraged to think about anything outside of himself. “Don’t ask; relax.”