“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”
― If There Be Thorns
― If There Be Thorns
Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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