She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.
If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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