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Fuck-it-if-it’s-not-happening-right-now was crisis thinking, and if he couldn’t break out of it, it would only lead to more crises later on.
The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.
“This is all too big for people,” Alex said. “The things that built it? Maybe they could handle it, but we’re not designed for this scale. We’re trying to get big enough we can make it work, but we’re breaking our legs just standing up.” “Huh,” Jim said. And then, a moment later, “You got any more beer?” “Nope.” “Want some?” “Yep.”
“I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are.”
“When people don’t know anything,” Amos said, “they love having meetings to talk about it.”
When they’d been young together, they’d been beautiful just because youth had a beauty all its own. It took age to see whether the beauty could last.
