Tobias Wolff said this quote

“ Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain. ”

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The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

~ Tobias Wolff

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

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a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

~ Tobias Wolff

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

~ Tobias Wolff