"Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain."

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Source : Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.230, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tobias Wolff

#Pain Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.”
“I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.”
“Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.”
“If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.”
“I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.”

Source : John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “A House-Boat on the Styx: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.18, 谷月社
“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.”
“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.”
“I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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