One operates in the now. Later, the retrospectoscope, that handy tool of the wags and pundits, the conveners of the farce we call M&M—morbidity and mortality conference—will pronounce your decision right or wrong. Life, too, is like that.
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“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”
― The Wings of the Dove: Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism
― The Wings of the Dove: Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
“Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
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