“ Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. ”
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“ Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die. ”
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“ What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggeringthat you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. ”
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“ Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light? ”
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“ I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try. ”
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“ You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. ”
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“ You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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“ I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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“ I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. ”
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“ The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ”
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“ The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much of intermittent gloom. ”
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“ I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest… ”
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“ The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much of intermittent gloom. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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“ The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much of intermittent gloom. ”
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“ I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest… ”
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“ Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ”
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“ The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. ”
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“ The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. ”
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“ Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ”
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“ I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest… ”
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“ Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ”
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“ Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ”
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
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