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What I am trying to say is what you already know—that life is a tragedy but that it also has its attending joys.
- Charlie Chaplin, in a letter to Clifford Odets
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It became instantly and irrevocably clear that the drinking was only a sideshow. The drinking, the not-drinking, would change nothing of this despair which was a part of him and always would be. It was a terrifying and liberating idea.
- Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
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I could sit in the dark with her and hold hands, but for how long? In a little while she will drift off into a haze of glamour and expensive clothes and froth and unreality and muted sex. She won’t be a real person any more. Just a voice from a sound track, a face on the screen.
- Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
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When I close my eyes, I’m in another world—the always perfect world of the past, which nostalgia has wiped clean of every blemish and bruise.
- Eva Baltasar, Boulder
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The truth is we’d never made any plans, we’d just taken huge bites out of life.
- Eva Baltasar, Boulder
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I can give anything up, because nothing is going essential when you refuse to imprison life in a narrative.
- Eva Baltasar, Boulder
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He had always felt a lack of attachment or conviction in himself that could let a friend fade from his life while he followed a stranger. Strangers are more beckoning; they offer new lives.
- David Thomson, Suspects
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We imagine others with so much more zeal than we ever see ourselves.
- David Thomson, Suspects
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Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person’s expense!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
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But real life never arranges itself exactly like a romance.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
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Which is to say, to love a sibling is to anchor your life to a series of sanctioned departures.
- Lindsey Drager, The Book of Alternate Endings
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They say that you can never go back—and that’s true. We change and so the places we return to will not seem the same.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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We are the stories we tell to ourselves.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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Truths cast many shadows, some of which are very different when the light shines from one direction than from another.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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We can never go back. Time doesn’t work that way. Not once you’ve stepped into the current.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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It’s always the books you don’t have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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You can escape from somewhere but you’re always going to leave part of yourself there.
- Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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