“When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.”
― Delhi: A Novel
― Delhi: A Novel
“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“You’ll remember Mark Twain’s comment about his father,” said Beth as they stepped off the bus. “‘When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he’d learned in seven years.”
― Nothing Ventured
― Nothing Ventured
“The true nature of sorrow is boredom.”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
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