“"Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
"Who says?"
"I say; everybody says!"
"Why would we have a Depression?"
"Because we don't have any discipline! We're drowning in debt! We don't even own our own country any more!"”

—  John Updike, book Rabbit at Rest

[Harry, to Nelson]
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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