"The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are only adds to this unhappiness in the end" - F. Scott Fitzerald, as quoted in Nonconformity by Nelson AlgrenAnd so it goes...
August 13, 2009
A qualified unhappiness
I might have blogged this when I read Nonconformity couple years back:
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