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“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
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“He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-
how the mind clings to the road it knows,
rushing through crossroads, sticking
like lint to the familiar.”
― Blue Pastures
how the mind clings to the road it knows,
rushing through crossroads, sticking
like lint to the familiar.”
― Blue Pastures
“I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science
Words often failed me
While others prayed I only moved my lips”
― The History of Love
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science
Words often failed me
While others prayed I only moved my lips”
― The History of Love
“I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
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