writer, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, journalist
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'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.