Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we h… - William Saroyan

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Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.