Saul BellowIf you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution.
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A routine job-world is an environment where people go to work and do the same thing day after day. Most of us don’t like routine jobs because we find them boring and uninspiring, so we escape into the world of art or the intellectual. Most of us do not like routine jobs because we feel there is something wrong with our jobs, and we want to get out of that job and into something that feels more right. This quote shows that we need more than just an artist or intellectual, but a higher institution.
Source: Humboldts Gift
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