“It concentrates the mind wonderfully knowing that this [life] is all we can expect.”
Bernard MacLaverty (1942) Irish writer
Short story, "The break", p.25
Short Stories, The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)
“That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.”
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