It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time … - William Boyd

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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

William Boyd

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

Apart, Gaps, Inevitable, People, True Life, Weather

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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Know, Knows, People, Possessed, Turn, Turns

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

Desire, Men, Mutual, Neon, Wordlessly, World

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

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It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me. ' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

Body, Deep, Effect, Instinct, Mating, Thinking

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

Limbo, Place, Sometimes, Stuck, Tolerable

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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

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Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

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She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

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