"But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be."

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

Jenny Offill

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“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers
“My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.”
“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
“There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.”
“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

Source : "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
“I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.”

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