

“It occurred to me that human beings didn’t live beyond a hundred because they simply weren’t up for it. Psychologically, I mean. You kind of ran out. There wasn’t enough self to keep going. You grew too bored of your own mind. Of the way life repeated itself. How, after a while, there wasn’t a smile or gesture that you hadn’t seen before. There wasn’t a change in the world order that didn’t echo other changes in the world order. And the news stopped being new.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time

“Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time

“We’re all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don’t find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984

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