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“The thing he hadn’t realized about success was that success made people boring. Failure also made people boring, but in a different way: failing people were constantly striving for one thing—success. But successful people were also only striving to maintain their success. It was the difference between running and running in place, and although running was boring no matter what, at least the person running was moving, through different scenery and past different vistas. And”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.”
― Career of Evil
― Career of Evil
“Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched.”
― Changing Cadence: Meditations on Life, Family and Country from a Leather Bicycle Seat
― Changing Cadence: Meditations on Life, Family and Country from a Leather Bicycle Seat
“How could written fiction hope to survive against the might of cinema and television if it didn’t offer something unique, something the other forms couldn’t do?”
― My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
― My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
“For after all, if attentiveness should be measured in minutes and discipline measured in hours, then indomitability must be measured in years. Or, if philosophical investigations are not to your taste, then let us simply agree that the wise man celebrates what he can.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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