I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.”, “How is it that in childhood everything new that caught my interest had an aura of the uncanny, since according to all the authorities the uncanny is not some new thing but a thing known returning in a different form, become a revenant?”. ― Stephen Fry, quote from The Liar, “He shouldn’t have touched Grace. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was meant to contain us?”, “Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.”, “Where I went, no one could follow. That is why the past is just such a retreat for me, I go there eagerly, rubbing my hands and shaking off the cold present and the colder future. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous I do not entertain the possibility of an afterlife, or any deity capable of offering it. See more on GoodReads, “Maybe, but we're the same, Liis. Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, ― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption, ― Tommy Wallach, quote from We All Looked Up, ― Cecelia Ahern, quote from The Year I Met You. But no, that is not it. ― John Banville, quote from The Sea, “Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I look back I see that the greater part of my energies was always given over to the simple search for shelter, for comfort, for, yes, I admit it, for cosiness. She is lodged in me like a knife and yet I am beginning to forget her. typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. And as much as it pains me to say it, I am lonely. ― John Banville, quote from The Sea, “Happiness was different in childhood. I fancy, rather, that I expected too much, in the way of knowing. Perhaps I should. . It is as if a fractious child had been handed a few timber shavings and a bucket of mud to keep him quiet only for him promptly to erect a cathedral. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.” It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.”, “Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall, suchlike, but when I look back I see that the greater part of my energies was always given over to the simple search for shelter, for comfort, for, yes, I admit it, for cosiness. The injunction nosce te ipsum had an ashen taste on my tongue from the first time a teacher enjoined me to repeat it after him. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.”, “Happiness was different in childhood.

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