Joshua Ferris Quotes

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Joshua Ferris

• Imagination
• Contentment
• Failures

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• We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

  

  Joshua Ferris
  • Imagination
  • Contentment
  • Failures