"We can't always take the most obvious road in life."
"Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul."
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Source: The Crisis in a Nutshell: 'A Rutting Chimpanzee' by Will Oremus, www.newyorker.com. May 16, 2011.
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