
“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.”
― 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
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