― Joseph Mitchell, quote from Up in the Old Hotel Hewitt, "and you're allowed to eat and draw breath and go back and forth a few short years, and about the time you get things in shape where you can sit down and enjoy them you wind up in a box in a hole in the ground, and as far as I can see, there's no purpose to it whatsoever.” "The generations have to keep coming along," said Harry. "The same thing that's going to happen to me is going to happen o them." "You raised a family, didn't you? That's the purpose of it." "You supported your wife, didn't you?" asked Harry. 'You cant talk your way out,' he'd often say, 'and you can't buy your way out, and you can't shoot your way out, and the only thing that mitigates the matter in the slightest is the fact that nobody else is going to escape. When he was a very old man, he often got on the subject of dying. "He liked the sound of it, and he used it whenever he could. “My grandfather used to like the word 'mitigate,'" Harry said. Albert Camus Born place: in Mondovi, Algeria Born date NovemSee more on GoodReads Popular quotes
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