I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.562, Random House
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