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Love is like the measles. We all have to go through it.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to get a good night’s sleep.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it’s exactly like love in three ways: it’s pushy, it has no real sense of humor, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

It is the storyteller’s right to exaggerate.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

If you don’t weaken, that’s what they’ll remember about you.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

Sometimes the best thing about love is its replaceability.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

A man’s past is not simply a dead history…it is a still quivering part of himself.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker

We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours in a day.

Peter Carey – Illywhacker