“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
“We live in our heads. You know, we are these vast things that just go in and in forever, and not only that but we comprise all of the things that we imagine, we comprise all of the things we've dreamed, we comprise the things that we've believed and we comprise the things that we used to believe but we manage no longer to believe in.”
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“Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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