"Boswell is the first of biographers."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

“When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
“Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you”
“When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.”
“With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”
“[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.”
“Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.”
“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”

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