Quotes by : Joshua Ferris

We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our....

If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off,....

People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the....

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing....

She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts....

We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting....

I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing....

It was madness to leave without your useless shit. You came in with it, you left with it--that was how....

The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It....

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony....