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Requiem for a Dream

by Hubert Selby Jr.

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Aug 31, 2018 04:52PM

“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

tags: expectations, pretense

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