"Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?"

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Dec 31, 2013

Bernhard Schlink

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“Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.”
“People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.”
“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a ***** shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.”

Source : 1987 Moon Tiger, ch.8.
“New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.”

Source : Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.”
“When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

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