Joe M

“For I knew I would not be always young, and that summer does not last forever either, nor even autumn, my mean soul told me so.”
― Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“He was not a realist, and I wasn't either, and we both knew that the others in all their triteness were realists, stupid as puppets which touch their collars a thousand times without ever discovering the string they are dangling on.”
― Heinrich Böll, The Clown