As you got older and time went on, you realized that the di… - Kate Atkinson

" "
As you got older and time went on, you realized that the distinction between truth and fiction didn’t really matter because eventually everything disappeared into the soupy, amnesiac mess of history. Personal or political, it made no difference.

Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins · May 5, 2015 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

English

Collect this quote

All quotes from Kate Atkinson Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Kate Atkinson:

Margaret Atwood F. Scott Fitzgerald Louise Erdrich Hugh Howey Gabriel García Márquez

Additional quotes by Kate Atkinson

"It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise."

He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

As you got older and time went on, you realized that the distinction between truth and fiction didn’t really matter because eventually everything dis… - Kate Atkinson

Additional quotes by Kate Atkinson