![[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-began-to-unload-the-pyramid-of-honors-civic-and-literary-which-had-been-hea.jpg)
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