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“Everyone had been so much more entertaining then. What had happened? Age, he guessed, And with it: Jobs. Money. Children. The things to forestall death, the things to ensure one's relevance, the things to comfort and provide context and content. The march forward, one dictated by biology and convention, that not even the most irreverent mind could withstand.”

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Book:A Little Life
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