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“Quand t'as vingt et un an, la vie est nette comme une carte routière. C'est seulement quand t’arrive à vingt-cinq que tu commences à soupçonner que tu tenais la carte à l'envers... et à quarante que t'en as la certitude. Quand t'atteins les soixante, alors là, crois moi t'es définitivement largué.”

Book:Joyland

Work

Joyland

In 'Joyland,' a young man reflects on his past and the mysterious events that unfolded during his summer working at an amusement park in the 1970s. The story delves into themes of nostalgia, loss, and the complexities of memory, as the protagonist grapples with the past and the present. more

Author

Stephen King

Stephen King, born on September 21, 1947, is a renowned American author. His works primarily focus on horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and have won him a wide audience. King has received numerous literary awards in the United States, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the World Fantasy Award. more

“And in Mom's necklace is the echo of their every other sacrifice—her slippers cuffing the hallway as she folds laundry, covering my chores while I studied into the night; the scar where she cut her finger chopping black chickens to nourish me during finals; Dad chauffeuring me to my clinic internship; all their worries over my med school applications. It's one thing to dance around the little controls Mom exerts on my life. Quite another to shed a hard-fought-for future of financial security and respect for our families. My parents would slit their throats for my happiness, and in return, my future is their future. I should have known better than to let myself get swept away.”

Book:Loveboat, Taipei

Source: Loveboat, Taipei

“Cilantro was briefly everywhere, creating miniflurries of conversation about whether or not you liked cilantro, which invariably included someone in the room saying, "I can't stand cilantro. It tastes like soap.”

Craze Fad Cilantro

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearing the manifesto of her generation. Every generation has its own set of passions, loves, and interests, which it professes with a certain tenacity, to differentiate it from older generations and to confirm itself in its uniqueness. Submitting to a generation mentality (to this pride of the herd) has always repelled me. After Miss Broz had developed her provocative argument (I've now heard it at least fifty times from people her age) that all mankind is divided into those who give hitchhikers lifts (human people who love adventure) and those who don't (inhuman people who fear life), I jokingly called her a "dogmatist of the hitch." She answered sharply that she was neither dogmatist nor revisionist nor sectarian nor deviationist, that those were all words of ours, that we had invented them, that they belonged to us, and that they were completely alien to them.”

Youth Rebellion Dogma Trend Manifesto Fad Sectarian Generation Mentality Generational Manifesto

Book:The Joke

Source: The Joke