“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Other people's life stories are not a topic for debate. One should hear them out, and reciprocate in the same coin.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“But the thing about labels is, they’re very useful when they’re right because,’ I carried on through her attempt at interruption, ‘because then you don’t give yourself wrong ones, like difficult or insane, or psychotic or a bad wife.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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