"Ordinary people are exhausted and panicked. Exhausted and panicked people cannot afford ideals. They must put food on the table. In our era, both public and private morality are declining at an alarming rate. You cannot expect people with extremely poor quality of life to have character." ——《The Long Goodbye*Raymond Chandler*1953》
When the author completed the book, he was at the tail end of the Gilded Age, when everyone was desperately struggling for survival...
I read a passage that startled me:
"Ordinary people are exhausted and panicked. Exhausted and panicked people cannot afford ideals. They must put food on the table. In our era, both public and private morality are declining at an alarming rate. You cannot expect people with extremely poor quality of life to have character."
——《The Long Goodbye*Raymond Chandler*1953》
When the author completed the book, he was at the tail end of the Gilded Age, when everyone was desperately struggling for survival...