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“Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now.”
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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