"I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever."

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My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.

— John Cheever