“Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
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Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
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Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders
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Daniel Pennac (1944) French author
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Wilhelm Bittrich (1894–1979) German general
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Vladimir Nabokov book Strong Opinions
Source: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Context: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.