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Still I promise myself, ‘Next time I will do better’ in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a ‘next time’.
“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
― Soul Music
― Soul Music
“Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts." Mrs. Neville”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“It hit me who they were talking about. Mrs. Neville. My Mrs. Neville. The teacher who’d said I should enter the short-story contest this year. Good-bye, she’d said as I’d left her room on the first day of summer. Not see you next year or see you in September, but a firm and final good-bye. She must’ve known she was dying, as she sat behind that desk in summer’s light, and she had known that for her there would be no new class of grinning young monkeys in September.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
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