“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
"The Enormous Womb", p. 96
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”
— Joan Slonczewski, book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
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