"I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us."

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As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

— Sherwood Anderson