A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 198

Sometimes, he thought, you just wander around not feeling very smart and your clothes aren’t sharp and your car is a loser and you know you haven’t done a thing you’ll be remembered for and you haven’t got no more than a curbstone nor brains enough to come in out of the rain or quit playing the dumb gags that only lead from one atrocity to the next. And you just feel dumb.

— from the novel Ninety-Two in the Shade (1973) by Thomas McGuane

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