"But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them."

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Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

Jed Rubenfeld

#Dream Quotes #Dark Quotes #Men Quotes

“As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.”
“Ask before offering advice or reassurance.”
“I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.”
“I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward.”
“I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.”
“Everyone in California is from somewhere else.”

Source : Wright Morris (1977). “Love Among the Cannibals”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press
“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”

Source : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65
“The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.”

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