Fiction Quote by Adelle Waldman Download Open image ““If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.”” — Adelle Waldman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Happiness Success
“But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.” — François Lelord Copy Share Image
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“...in a certain sense, it's harder for men to say no to sex than it is for women. When a woman says no, nobody's… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Of course, these women ought to have listened when he told them he wasn't looking for anything serious. But on a certain level, it… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.” — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“...the belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Each time Nate saw her, Elisa’s beauty struck him anew, as if in the interval the memory of what she actually looked like had… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Once she’d remarked, for example, that the problem, even for socialist countries, is that those people who are deeply committed to ideals of any… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“He would have denied it, even to himself -deemed it a laughable affectation- but it seemed to him now that he had always secretly… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“As he tore his eyes from the books to meet hers, he was, as a matter of fact, nearly overwhelmed by sadness. It gusted… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“I’m sure a lot of it is my fault,” he said. He smiled ruefully. “And by a lot, I mean all.” “Ah, the self-deprecating… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image