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Next Life Might Be Kinder QUOTES

Next Life Might Be Kinder QUOTES

1 " I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn’t in extremis? "

― Howard Norman , Next Life Might Be Kinder

2 " If there is a next life yes, I have that hope, for it to be kinder. But probably whatever notion you come up with will be better than anything I could come up with. I'm in a constant state of uncertainty. "

― Howard Norman , Next Life Might Be Kinder

3 " Today I fell to the ground at the pull of memory. There quite seemed a permanence to my defeat. And here I thought, in their profound tug-of-war, present and future would, by sheer shouldering force of will and superior numbers, win out over the past. How wrong I was. —Marghanita Laski "

― Howard Norman , Next Life Might Be Kinder

4 " All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her. And you want her to; you want her with all her resistances, all her faults, all her unexpectedness. That is, in her foursquare and independent reality. And this, not any image or memory, is what we are to love still; after she is dead. "

― Howard Norman , Next Life Might Be Kinder