Listening, they soon learn everything, even the difference between falsehood and truth, which is the height of wisdom.
– Jose Saramago The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.
– RICHARD RUSSO Chances Are…
“The difficulty with women is that their feelings are apt to get interested sooner than ours, and then, you know, reasoning is out of the question.”
– Bret Harte The Man of No Account
“How obstinate is the optical illusion that always makes our neighbor’s troubles seem less and his job more lovable!”
– PRIMO LEVI The Monkey Wrench
Happiness… is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
– F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Beautiful and Damned
And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.
– CHRISTINA HENRIQUEZ “The Wide, Pale Ocean” in Come Together, Fall Apart
“Women understood each other, or so he assumed, for someone must understand them and he knew he did not.”
– ROSE TREMAIN The Colour
. . .and perhaps it’s middle age, you begin to feel rather possessive, protective about your thoughts, anxious to get them down on paper before they fade away . . .
– DAVID LODGE Thinks . . .
