"Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all."

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Source : "Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - review" by John Self, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

Deborah Levy

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“Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.”
“Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.”
“Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.”
“Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.”
“Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?”
“Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.”
“No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.”
“I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.”

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