Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. ”

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate. ”

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis. ”

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different. ”

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life. ”

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. ”

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience. ”

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict. ”

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. ”

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ”