At the very center of all human life is energy, psychic ene… - Vivian Gornick

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At the very center of all human life is energy, psychic energy. It is the force of that energy that drives us, that must repeatedly spend and renew itself in us, that must perpetually be reaching for something beyond itself in order to satisfy its own insatiable appetite. ("The Next Great Moment In History Is Theirs")

Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.

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