All That Is Mine I Carry With Me Quotes

“In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“Why ever wash a bath towel, he would say, when the towel cannot be dirtier than you, since it only touches you at your cleanest, after you’ve just bathed? Why close a drawer or make a bed when you are just going to reopen the drawer and unmake the bed in a few hours? Why clean a soap dish when the dirt is soap? Why fold underpants?”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“Don't face up to your problems with honesty and courage. That's just crazy. You're better off burying them under an avalanche of sarcasm.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“You can cheat with a picture. You can fall in love with an image of someone, with a memory or an idea of her. For that matter, the matter is generally easier to love than the actual person, since the image will never change, never grow old, never argue or disappoint you.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?”

“I think you killed your wife.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“Nothing to write about.” “There’s a whole world to write about.” “Meh. The world is such a mess right now. The whole novel thing—it feels trivial, telling little stories when everything is falling apart.” “Everything is always falling apart. We still need art.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“It is one thing to fail, as we all do, and another thing to live with that failure year after year, to carry it around in your pocket and worry it with your fingers.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“But it is hard to say no to my brother, whose invitations feel like commands. He says You wanna play golf? with the same presumption that a rich man says to his driver Will you bring the car around?”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“(Alex and Laurel have three young kids, too, aged seven, nine, and eleven. I find these spoiled children more insufferable every time I see them. At this rate, I expect that very soon my nieces and nephews will be suitable only to be sewn up in a burlap bag with a wolverine and tossed into the nearest river.)”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“Forbidding as the school was, at least I had a new friend. Jeff and I hit it off right away. We were inseparable. It was one of those childhood friendships that was so natural and uncomplicated, we seemed to discover it more than we created it. I have no adult friendships like the one I had with Jeff. I am sure I never will. Once we slip on the armor of adulthood, we lose the ability to form that kind of naive, unqualified connection.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

“Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never any proof against you in the first place?”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“We are all sealed up alone. We all carry the center of the universe inside our own
heads. It is, for each of us, a point a few inches behind our eyes where the binocular lines of vision converge. Only a narcissist or a child is fool enough to believe it.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“Ми — тендітні істоти з тонкою, ніжною шкірою і крихкими кістками. Дивно, що люди так довго живуть.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“З фотографією можна зрадити. Можна закохатися в чийсь образ, спогад або уявлення про когось. Якщо вже на те пішло, то образ, як правило, легше полюбити, ніж саму людину, бо він ніколи не зміниться, не постаріє, не сперечатиметься і не розчарує вас.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“— Та годі! У світі зараз суцільний безлад. І ця писанина романів здається тривіальною, ну як можна розповідати короткі історії, коли все розвалюється на шматки?
— Завше все розвалювалося на шматки. Проте люди й досі хочуть доторкнутися до мистецтва.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“The end does not erase everything that came before.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“He can be honest and unreliable, honest and wrong. The world is full of honest fools.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

“We are all sealed up alone. We all carry the center of the universe inside our own heads.”
― William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me