“Everybody here drove around like a dedicated loser, expecting moment to moment to get into an accident. Doc could relate to this — it was like the beach, where you lived in a climate of unquestioning hippie belief, pretending to trust everybody while always expecting to be sold out”
but he didn't have to enjoy that either, especially.
Source: Inherent Vice (2009), p. 225
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