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I was in a state of yearning, and I had been for years. I was not happy—had almost never been happy. This is terrible! I thought. All those lies! I f… - Walter Tevis
" "I was in a state of yearning, and I had been for years. I was not happy—had almost never been happy.
This is terrible! I thought. All those lies! I felt physically sick to see it all: to see myself slack-jawed as a child in front of the television, to see myself in classes being told by robot teachers that “inward development” was the aim of life, that “quick sex is best,” that the only reality was in my consciousness and that it could be altered chemically. What I had wanted, what I had yearned for even then, was to be loved. And to love. And they had not even taught me the word.
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About Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Walter S. Tevis
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Walter Stone Tevis
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"Oh," I said.
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