"Be careful what you wish for" (1976)

[Paul Frank]

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"Be careful what you wish for in your youth," says an aphorism of Goethe's
by which I have long been haunted, "for you will get it in your middle-age."
        Leslie A. Fiedler, No! in Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature,
Beacon Press, 1960, p. 169.



Paul
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