Tragedy Is One Of The Larger Prices

We Can Rarely Tell Others What We Really Think About Them--not Just Because It Would So Wound Them, But Also Because It Would So Wound Ourselves.

From Graham Greene, I Learnt How To Be An Accessible Writer Who Grapples With Our Doubts As Sentient Individuals.

But What We Can Never Do Is Change The Story That Has Made Us What We Are. It's A Story Completely Dictated By The Accumulation Of Life's Manifold Complexities—its Capacity For Astonishment And Horror, For Sanguinity And Hopelessness, For Pellucid Light And The Most Profound Darkness. We Are What Has Happened To Us.

All Our Stories Are Simultaneously Unique And Desperately Similar, Aren't They?

If There Is An Abiding Theme In 'the Pursuit Of Happiness,' It Is The Idea That You Come Into The World Already Shaped By Other People's Past Histories.