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“I know it sounds stupid. But I look at my own life and all I see is ambivalence and confusion. Nothing dramatic happens, at least not suddenly. In real life, nothing happens quickly. Everything just erodes.”

Holy moly.

"I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to."

"I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent most of my childhood years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as thought my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dinner, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home."

"Some days he was so bored, he wanted to chew wood."

We're all cowards. One day, you hope, you will find the courage to face it.

"Life became less easy for me: when the body is sad the heart languishes. It seemed to me that I was half unlearning what I had never learned and yet knew so well--how to live."

"In that regard you must admit that society has somewhat spoiled the frank simplicity of his nature."

"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."

This book is delightful! Definitely need to catch up on Mad Men though!

I paid $$ for this POS book. What kind of crappy quality textbooks are publishers putting out these days? Are editors and fact checkers even going over this trash? I've found errors and typos. And worst of all it looks like a useless magazine.

Amazing how disappointment changes people. I love how this novella is the collective memory of a generation.