“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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