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Barbara Adde
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“This could be true of nations, too. Nations might think of themselves as stories, and the stories end, but life goes on. Maybe my own country’s life as a story ended after the Second World War, when it was the richest and most powerful nation on earth, when it was going to ensure peace and justice everywhere, since it alone had the atom bomb.”
— Jul 24, 2026 09:42AM
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Barbara Adde
is on page 243 of 271
“I suppose that’s really what so many American women are complaining about these days: They find their lives short on story and overburdened with epilogue.”
— Jul 24, 2026 02:14PM
Barbara Adde
is on page 235 of 271
“We all see our lives as stories, it seems to me, and I am convinced that psychologists and sociologists and historians and so on would find it useful to acknowledge that. If a person survives an ordinary span of 60 years and r more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended, and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.”
— Jul 24, 2026 09:37AM