Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.40, Penguin
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