Miss Misery

(...) the misery that comes your way is most likely to be self-generated. It would be another matter if you were living in Nazi-occupied Europe or in Mao Zedong's China. There they manufacture the misery for you; you don't have to take a single wrong step in order never to want to get up in the morning. But here, free of totalitarianism, a man like you has to provide himself his own misery. (...)

in The Dying Animal, Philip Roth, Vintage


Para o Pedro Mexia, grande apreciador de Roth.