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The American Dream - American literature questions people's dreams of a perfect world, of freedom of movement, of expansion, of seeking new experiences and new opportunities to become whatever one wants to be.

Quotes from Langston Hughes such as "Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

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