Starting Out In the Evening (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Leonard Schiller: Add a description of this character.
• Heather Wolfe
• Casey
• Sandra
• Ariel
• Levin
• William
• Jeff
• Henry James
• Wilson
• Arid
• Sancho
• Stella
• Leslie
• D. H. Lawrence
• Bonner
• Freud
• Scott
• Borges
• Roy
• Sam
• Kazin

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• “He was preoccupied with the thought that at every point of the game there was at least one perfect move, one "brilliancy," which he could find if he pondered the position deeply enough.”

  Leonard Schiller

• “That's how I feel now. About myself. I don't feel like an old man. I feel as it I'm still ripening. I feel as if I"m just starting to understand things. But what's the use of this ripeness? It doesn't nourish anything. it just disappears.”

  George Levin

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• You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice—over the weeks and months and years to come—requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

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• Love, during the middle years, is in great part a matter of accompanying your beloved through life's disasters.

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• When most of the people you've loved are gone, you begin to let go.

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• Sometimes, said Thoreau, you can date a new era in your life from the reading of a book.

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• 'Sidney Hook—a philosopher about whom your friend Leonard Schiller undoubtedly has strong feelings, one way or the other—used to say that most of the difficult decisions in life don't involve right against wrong, but right against right. That's why life is tragic.

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• 'That's how I feel now. About myself. I don't feel like an old man. I feel as if I'm still ripening. I feel as if I'm just starting to understand things. But what's the use of this ripeness? It doesn't give birth to anything. It doesn't nourish anything. It just disappears.'

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• His daughter, even if the world began to show her its mildest face, would always be tangled in coils of unhappiness.

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• the comet—to see it delicately stepping across the sky, trailing its long blue train. But as she waited, holding her lover's hand, she found herself thinking that she wouldn't mind if it never even appeared: the night was astonishing already, just as it was.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York
• Paris
• Manhattan
• Hoboken
• France
• America
• Balzac

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Brian Morton (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Pen/Faulkner Award (Finalist, 1999: Fiction)

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary