

“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love

“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin

“I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it.
Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book”
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Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book”
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“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”
― Zoli
― Zoli

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
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