I Used to Believe I Had Forever... (1968)

Title:

I Used to Believe I Had Forever. Now I'm Not So Sure

Date:

November 1968

Art Credits:

First edition cover designed by Lawrence Ratzkin

First edition back cover photograph by Arthur Rothstein

UK edition jacket design by Leo Vernon

Notes:

I Used to Think002 UK edition published by Cassell in 1969

Dedication: "To the guard at the ruins of the Monastery of the Roses, near Erivan, - old, indestructable, nameless, and the nation."

Includes the stories:

Note
The Saroyan Prizes, 1908- 1940
A Seaside Friendship
Pebbles on the Beach
High Tide and Low Tide
The Wheels of Memory
Sunday Is a Hell of a Day
My Shoes: A Short Story From 1933
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Anybody Home?
Remember the Joyride?
Money, Money, Money, and You Can Have It
The Small Rain
Memories of 1956
I Used to Think005 Ah Silence, Ah Music, Ah Shut Up
Earthly and Heavenly Voices
Me and My Big Gray Horse
C,A,T Cat Spells Everything
Armenia and Her Poet Charentz
Joe Gould, Joe Frisco, and American Talk
Look Out, Here Comes Another Lion
The Turk Street Gamblers
The Adventures of American Writers in Paris in 1929
The Flashing Dragonfly
A Soft Word to the Gravedigger
Good Old Goody Goody Godot
Paint, People, and Mexico's Tamayo
Oh La La, or The Shot Writer
The Eye and Hand of Dong Kingman
How to Write a Short Story
Fletcher Martin, Painter
Confessions of a Playwright
I Used to Think006 What Makes American Writing American?
A Few Answers About Television
The Unknown Soldier Identified
Applause
Homage to Baseball
The World Series of 1956, and the Perfect Game
Hong Kong
Say I'm a Liar, But I Love You. Guess Who?
A New Idea in the World
American Acting
What Do We Want Art to Do?
The Hoax of Success
Tijuana the Tramp Town of Lower California
A Walk in New York
Losses
Sons and Fathers
I Don't Get It
Malibu 1954
I Used to Think007 All in One Crack
Making Money
I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not So Sure