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“[Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered]
'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition.
Concentrate everything
you know, everything you can summon,
to accomplish this
one desire. But remember: Choose something
you can't do.”
― Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition.
Concentrate everything
you know, everything you can summon,
to accomplish this
one desire. But remember: Choose something
you can't do.”
― Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
“Why read the memoir? Sven Birkerts offers a succinct reason. 'The point—the glory—of memoir is that it anchors its authority in the actual life; it is a modeling of the process of creative self-inquiry as it is applied to the stuff of lived experience. This really happened is the baseline contention of the memoir.”
― Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
― Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
