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There was something particularly American about it—blaming yourself for bad luck—that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behavior. The ugly reverse of the
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“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen’s lunch”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“Okay.”
― The Road
― The Road
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