“We write books because our children aren’t interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“It was nice, that moment with the baton aloft. A man who can pitch a tent and live in a valley three heartbeats wide is a happy man. I heard the seagulls call, I heard a gurgle and a crunch in the water as some tide or other rushed against the hull. It wasn't so bad, that instant. the baton fell.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
“Perhaps you never have time when are you alive? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“How many times had she tipped the waiter more than necessary just because she’d remembered that he was going to die and didn’t know it.”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
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