James Oppenheim — a remark

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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

A concise contrast between imagined future happiness and the practice of cultivating it in the present · Prose remark, commonly attributed to James Oppenheim

About James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim

24 May 1882–4 August 1932

James Oppenheim, born on 24 May 1882 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and dead on 4 August 1932 in New York City, belonged to that fervent generation of American writers who wanted literature to enter the streets. He was a poet, novelist, editor, social observer, and eventually an interpreter of the psyche. His name is most…

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