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I’m having a hard time turning the page.” “That’s got to be difficult for a writer.”
laughter is the strongest feeling of all, stronger than love and passion. Laughter is a form of perfection. We never regret it; we always experience it fully. When it’s over, we’re always satisfied—we want it to go on but we do not ask for more. Even the memory of laughter is pleasant.”
a great novel is a painting—a world offered to the reader who allows herself to be wrapped up in the immense illusion created by the author’s brushstrokes. The picture shows rain: you feel wet. A cold, snow-covered landscape? You start to shiver.
believed my ambition was to become president of that damn bank, but now that I am president, I realize that my ambition is to be loved. And that’s a much more difficult goal to achieve.”
Life is a novel whose conclusion we already know: in the end, the hero dies. The most important thing is not how our story ends, but how we fill the pages. For life, like a novel, must be an adventure. And adventures are life’s vacations.
