“You spend your whole life trying to work out where you fit.”
Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer
Source: Novels, That Eye, the Sky (1986), Ch.4 - p.25
“You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.
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Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
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Source: Five Finger Exercise