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“In your letter from March you mentioned the matter of your boredom. Of course you are bored. The mind was not created for idleness. Golf, drinking, staying in one’s pajamas until late in the morning, stretching oneself to find ways in which to pass the days is the way we were meant to spend our vacation weeks, not decades of our lives.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“Couples with long marriages always intrigued her. Was it that they were a better match than others, or they just worked harder at it?”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“In your letter from March you mentioned the matter of your boredom. Of course you are bored. The mind was not created for idleness. Golf, drinking, staying in one’s pajamas until late in the morning, stretching oneself to find ways in which to pass the days is the way we were meant to spend our vacation weeks, not decades of our”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“Nowadays there were even books that told you everything, like What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Sadly, no one had written What to Expect When You Are No Longer and Never Will Be Expecting.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife