“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
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“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards”
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”
In The Light of what We Know (2014)
“Today I read your autobiography in two volumes, Living My Life.”
These two books full of life, shocked me greatly. Your roaring of forty years like spring thunder, knocked at the door of my living grave throughout the whole book. At this time, silence lost its effect, the fire of my life was lit, I want to come to life and go through great anguish, immeasurable joy, dark despair and enthusiastic hope, throughout the peak and the abyss of life. I will calmly go on living with an attitude you taught me until I spend my whole life.
Dedication to Emma Goldman
“He writes the page of every day of his life who has the courage to live his dreams.”
Original: (it) Scrive la pagina di ogni giorno della sua vita colui che ha il coraggio di vivere i propri sogni.
Source: prevale.net
“His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.”
Source: Beautiful Ruins
