America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have … - Thomas McGuane

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If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Thomas McGuane

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

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