I was young then, and much more courteous to older people — and to everyone else, for that matter, as I look back on it — than I should have been. Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time — time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

— Joseph Mitchell Joe Gould's Secret (1965)

Notes from Wikiquote

"Joe Gould's Secret", pt. 2, in The New Yorker (September 18, 1964)

Old Mr. Flood (1948)

My Ears Are Bent (1938)

The Bottom of the Harbor (1959)

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