I checked this out as I heard the phrase before.
"Gradually, then suddenly" seems to be originally a quote from Hemmingway in The Sun Also Rises about bankrupcy:
“How did you go bankrupt?" - "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
It is quoted then in the context of depression in the movie Prozac Nation:
"Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
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I checked this out as I heard the phrase before. "Gradually, then suddenly" seems to be originally a quote from Hemmingway in The Sun Also Rises about bankrupcy:
“How did you go bankrupt?" - "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
It is quoted then in the context of depression in the movie Prozac Nation:
"Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.