― Or, as my grandmother once put it to my mother: ‘Your father would be a wonderful man, if only he were different.
― Ha
― Yes, ha. A whole epic of pain and suffering reduced to a single sentence.
― Matrimony as a swamp, as a lifelong exercise in self-delusion.
✖ Via Leviathan by Paul Auster, New York: Penguin, 1992, p. 91

• Aug 08, 2010 link notes tagged: art  novel  author  Paul Auster  couple  love  pain  father  mother  delusion  self-delusion  together 

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