The biographer's challenge is to be both a detective and a poet.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
把你的伤痛转化为智慧。
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.