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Metropolitan: A Novella and Three Stories

Book by Whit Stillman · 1 quotes · Ambition, Careerism, Class

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“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease of moving upwards. What's less discussed is how easy it is to go down. I think that's the direction that we're all heading in. And I think that the downward fall is gonna be very fast. Not just for us as individuals, but the whole preppy class. Just look around. Take those of our fathers who grew up very well off. Maybe their careers started out well enough but just as their contemporaries really began to accomplish things, they started to quit, or rising above office politics, or refusing to compete and risk open failure. Or not doing the humdrum part of the job. Or only doing the humdrum part. Or gradually spending more and more time on something more interesting — conservation, or the arts — where even if they were total failures no one would know it.”

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