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“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”
― The Easter Parade
― The Easter Parade
“My life is a reading list.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
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