It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.Seneca
“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”
“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”
— ELLEN GILCHRIST
American novelist · 1935 – 2024
Ellen Gilchrist was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction was set largely in the American South. Her collection Victory Over Japan won the National Book Award in 1984.
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