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Helen Driver
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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
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“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of them in retrospect and pass them on while there’s still time. You begin, embarrassingly belatedly, to see them as people with lives long preceding your own.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
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“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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