"There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived."

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Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

Marianne Wiggins

#Fleeting Quotes #Answers Quotes

“I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”
“I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.”
“There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.”
“Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.”
“Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.”

Source : 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
“He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”

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