Painterly compass beside a narrow glowing doorway in a dark freestanding wall.

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Travis Bickle

Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.

— Taxi Driver • 1976

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This expresses a stark sense of fatalism, the feeling that one's entire life has been aimed at a single unavoidable point all along. It reads less like a decision being made than a recognition of something the speaker believes was always inevitable, leaving no real sense of choice.

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