Over and over our plans foundered on human nature. On the m… - Robert Stone

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Over and over our plans foundered on human nature. On the mediocrity of human nature that betrays its better self, its best ideals, that is unworthy of itself everywhere.
"Shocking, the mediocrity of everything - is it not?

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(August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.

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Alternative Names: Robert Anthony Stone

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