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Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) wrote, “Life can only be understood by looking backward; but it must be lived looking forward.”
“People, on the other hand, hurt those they said they loved, found offence in the innocuous and when they got what they wanted, never seemed that happy. Actually, they seemed very happy initially and then inevitably that happiness degraded. If”
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2
“People, thought Noreen. People really were the problem. If people were a bit easier to deal with, she’d probably have become a doctor like her father and his father before him, instead of being the unspoken family disappointment of a veterinarian. She really had tried to like people, but it was very hard to based on the available evidence – war, famine and the films of Adam Sandler. Animals, on the other hand, were infinitely more lovable. In fact, their only downside was that they were invariably owned by people. It was the Peter principle on a massive evolutionary scale. Humanity had been promoted to the position of dominant species, a role they managed with utter incompetency.”
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 1
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 1
“One determined woman could be worth ten men with guns if the world would just let her get on with it.”
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2
― The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2
“he was not a person to whom things simply happened. His life had been lived in some kind of neutral gear, he had never broken a limb, never been stung by a bee, never been close to love or death. He had never strived for greatness, and his reward had been a small life.”
― One Good Turn
― One Good Turn
“Gosh, you could spend two million in a day, if you put your mind to it,” Julia had said. She was right, of course. Inheriting his two million had been like winning the lottery (“ Trailer-trash money,” Julia called it). Real money was old money, the kind of money that you could never get through no matter how hard you tried. It was passed down from generation to generation and hoarded. It came from enclosing your peasants’ fields, from getting in on the ground floor of the Industrial Revolution, and from buying slaves to cut down your sugarcane. The people with real money ran everything.”
― One Good Turn
― One Good Turn
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