Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Zum Autor"It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant."
"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."
"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."
"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."