“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.”
Source: The Stone Woman
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British Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian 1943Related quotes
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