“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
“There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.”
― The Yellow Birds
― The Yellow Birds
“All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.”
― The Yellow Birds
― The Yellow Birds
“The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.”
― The Yips
― The Yips
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