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Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural. It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. November 1974  •  Other names جاشوا فریس
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Works

Then We Came to the End
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
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Famous Joshua Ferris Quotes

“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

“I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

“We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

“To conform is to lose your soul”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

Joshua Ferris

“Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.”

Joshua Ferris book To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Source: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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