“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
“I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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