Älter werden ist kein Kampf; älter werden ist ein Massaker.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Geburtstag, Alter0Ich kam nach New York und in nur wenigen Stunden machte New York etwas mit mir: die Stadt erweckt Möglichkeiten. Hoffnung bricht aus.
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
New York City0The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
0Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
0Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
0He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
0Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
0Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
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