Stewart Stern

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

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These are some quotes by American author Stewart Stern Writer, who lived between March 22, 1922 and February 2, 2015.

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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

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We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.

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