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“The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“Positive thinking, after all, is an all-American coping mechanism, practically a national pastime. Author James Rorty noted this during the Great Depression, when he traveled America talking with people forced to seek work on the road. In his 1936 book, Where Life Is Better, he was dismayed that so many of his interview subjects seemed so unshakably cheerful. “I encountered nothing in 15,000 miles of travel that disgusted and appalled me so much as this American addiction to make-believe,” he wrote.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“The last free place in America is a parking spot.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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