The Great Mistake
Jonathan Lee
Top 10 Best Quotes
“At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.”
“exercise his brain and keep him fed, but how to gain any traction? Books, he thought. Books, books, books. Books to get him somewhere. Books to turn him into someone. Books to grab hold of on his way up. Books as a way to be alone without feeling so alone.”
“New York didn’t set out to charm you. It was like God that way. You had to bring a lot of the enthusiasm yourself.”
“There may be mistakes in the choice of means to attain an end. But success or failure also involves much that lies beyond our power. We are not responsible for the inevitable, nor for a knowledge that is beyond our reach. Solely the ends, honestly chosen, and consistently sought, determine the moral quality of a life.”
“If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.”
“the embrace—one that seems to lack a center. A feeling of being held only by the very edges of who you are. Of wanting, so intensely, to be brought into the heart.”
“Two turtles dressed in their shells. This”
“Two errors, wrote Pascal, a thinker Andrew once admired. One: to take everything literally. Two: to take everything spiritually.”
“The real cruelty of dying was not the way your own obscene dreams went gray. It was the fact that you lost the chance to tell your story.”
“She was here to get rich and richer and then get out from under these men, not to accommodate mediocre mumbling coves. A man should be able to afford his own expulsions.”
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