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> [“..there was always a chance, that as bad as things were, America was a big juggling act and that we could all be kept up in the air somehow, and go around not from hand to hand, but from light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/there-was-always-a-chance-that-as-bad-as-things-were-america-was-a/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

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## More by E. L. Doctrow

> [“..it is a fact that money exhilarates people, it puts them in hysterias of good cheer, they suddenly care about you and want the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/it-is-a-fact-that-money-exhilarates-people-it-puts-them-in-hysterias/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

> [“I want you to get a haircut so you don't look like Ish Kabibble on a rainy night.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/i-want-you-to-get-a-haircut-so-you-don-t-look-like-ish-kabibble-on-a/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

> [“And the men who got down from the cab were not ordinary truck drivers in soft caps and mackinaws but men in overcoats and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/and-the-men-who-got-down-from-the-cab-were-not-ordinary-truck-drivers/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

> [“..there was always a chance, that as bad as things were, America was a big juggling act and that we could all be kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/there-was-always-a-chance-that-as-bad-as-things-were-america-was-a/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

> [“Mr. Schultz did impulsive and unwise things, and I worried that I was one of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctrow/mr-schultz-did-impulsive-and-unwise-things-and-i-worried-that-i-was/)

[E. L. Doctrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctrow/)

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