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Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

Louis Menand

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

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About Louis Menand

Louis Menand (; born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.