A Quote from Augie March
People don’t do what they have a talent for, but what their preoccupation leads to. If they’re good at auto repairing they have to sing Don Giovanni. If they can sing, they have to be architects. If they have a gift for architecture, they wish to become school superindendents or abstract painters or anything else.
Anything. It’s a spite. It’s having to prove full ultimate self-sufficiency or some such monster dream that you don’t need anyone else to do these things for you.
