“Memory is a snare, pure and simple: it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
– MARIO VARGAS LLOSA The Storyteller
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It’s good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life – in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit you will never be happy like that again is hard.
– WILLIAM BOYD Any Human Heart
…some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain,…
– EVAN S. CONNELL Mrs. Bridge
“When life is a weariness and escape impossible, it is wonderful to have a friend who can bring us peace with the touch of a hand.”
– HALLDOR LAXNESS Independent People
“But having sex is a fact and describable, while making love is an illusion and indescribable.”
– GORE VIDAL Two Sisters
“I miss the sweet specificity of marriage, its firm ballast and sail.”
– RICHARD FORD The Sportswriter
Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
– VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway
“Happiness isn’t relative, any more than suffering is. No one is going to feel grateful that his life isn’t any worse.”
– MARTIN AMIS London Fields
