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You get a job. You become the job.
— Taxi Driver · 1976
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says taking a job does more than fill your hours: it gradually replaces who you are. What you do becomes your identity, until the work and the person are indistinguishable. The two short sentences carry a flat, faintly bleak sense of loss.
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