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“The questions he knew how to answer were not about place or roots, but about love. Who do you love? What can you leave behind, and what do you need to hold on to? Where does your heart feel full?”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“He took refuge in work, just as he had at Rugby. The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life or of the work, Yeats said, and since the perfect life was plainly beyond him he had better look to the work instead.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Grown-ups are not good at masking their
concerns, although they can hide their delight and curiosity surprisingly
well. Whereas with children it is the other way round. Children can tactfully
mute their anxiety and conceal their sorrow, but will struggle not to express
their excitement. That is what growing up means, in some simple way:
learning to repress all expressions of pure happiness and joy.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
concerns, although they can hide their delight and curiosity surprisingly
well. Whereas with children it is the other way round. Children can tactfully
mute their anxiety and conceal their sorrow, but will struggle not to express
their excitement. That is what growing up means, in some simple way:
learning to repress all expressions of pure happiness and joy.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“All his life he had known that there was a small enclosed space at the center of his being that nobody else could enter, and that all his work and best thoughts flowed from that secret place in a way he did not fully understand.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Sometimes I think there are only two kinds of people in the world, Dad: those who read and those who don't. I don't know about other people, but I sort of found myself in books. Bit by bit, shade by shade, underlined sentence by underlined sentence, dog-ear by dog-ear, I began to see myself. Independently of everything and, at the same time, in relation to everything. I hope that makes sense. Yeah!”
― Tell Her Everything
― Tell Her Everything
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