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“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“It all meant something. Until it didn't.”
― A Hologram for the King
― A Hologram for the King
“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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