"'When you are young,' Morris said now, looking out his window, back to us, 'and you're on your way, and you have everything before you and everyone with you- you don't know anyone else- and you look at all the others with their screwed-up lives and you know you'll do things differently, you know you will, and you do. You are kinder, gentler, you are smarter. And then one day you look up and you've done all the things you said you were going to do but somehow you forgot something, something's happened along the way and everyone's gone, everything's different, and looking around you see you have the same screwed-up life as all those other idiots. And there- you are.'"
All the Sad Young Literary Men- Keith Gessen
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