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“Like everybody else who turned seventy I am delighted to be here, when one considers all the other options.”
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“I lie in bed at home, trying to put feelings into words. On the one hand—and this is the part to do with the past—love feels like the vast and sudden easing of a lifelong frown. But simultaneously—this is the part to do with the present and the future—it feels as if the lungs of my soul have been inflated with pure oxygen.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story
“he certainly never regretted his love for Susan. What he did regret was that he had been too young, too ignorant, too absolutist, too confident of what he imagined love’s nature and workings to be.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story
“In my opinion, every love, happy or unhappy, is a real disaster once you give yourself over to it entirely.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story
“There is nothing that is more profoundly healing than the act of solitary reading provided that what is being read is indeed permanent, deep, lasting work. Work that calls for all of your faculties in response. Work that calls you out of your own deep as it were. Work that transforms you. That is to say Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Jane Austen. We know who this authors are, we neglect them I think, at our own potential debasement.”
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