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“It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
“So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
“The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
“To sit across the table and talk with someone you love is itself a complex engagement, with an exhaustingly subtle flow of information; to go to bed with someone--to carry your conversation into the realm of the body, a realm of insecurity and fear as well as pleasure--was always fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand another person and make yourself understood.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
“A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.”
― Starting Out in the Evening
― Starting Out in the Evening
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