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Derry would insist on being sick before every game. By which I mean, if the nerves hadn’t naturally made him sick, he would stick his fingers down his throat and do the job himself. At the risk of stating the obvious, it really killed the
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“The experience of cancer has taught me one important truth at least: that we are never - or never need be - alone.”
― This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings
― This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Man does not live simply in order to die.”
― Five Modern No Plays
― Five Modern No Plays
“I sat back in the corner with a heavy mug of dark beer and an opened glazed-paper package of pretzels and ate the pretzels for the salty flavor and the good way they made the beer taste and read about disaster.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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