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A.S.A. Harrison was a British science fiction writer recognized for his works that delved into themes of technology and ethics. Born in 1948, Harrison's career spanned several decades, during which he penned numerous novels and short stories. His writing often examined the future of humanity and the role of technology in society.

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“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

Knows Way Young Choices Lost Careers Fields Possibility Corners Commit Mates You Choose Implications Choices You Make

Author:A.S.A. Harrison

“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Personality Behavior Spite Traits Adjusting Personality Traits

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.”

Men Reason Given Shapes Certainty Reason Why Given Up

Book:The Silent Wife

Source: The Silent Wife

“We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.”

Desire Belief Endless Contradiction Possessed Psych

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.”

People Mean Don't Change Change For The Better People Don't Change

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.”

Way Life Persons Tolls

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”

People Needs Mind Wells Feelings Accepting Expectations Treats Peace Of Mind Resentment Anger And Resentment

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.”

Book:The Silent Wife

Source: The Silent Wife

“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Spirit Accepting Acceptance Couple Cost Expectations Good Things Compromise Enthusiasm Supposed To Be Grants Cynicism Serenity Therapists Resignation Unnoticed

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”

Knows Stories Individual Events Ten Details Trials Shrinks Exquisite Assorted

Book:The Silent Wife

Source: The Silent Wife

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Moving Life Is Force Mediums Agency Primal

Author:A.S.A. Harrison

“It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.”

People Facts Certain Known Failing Epic

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

May Past Amount Waste Substance Damage Our Past Your Past Unwanted Factual

Author:A.S.A. Harrison

“Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”

Ifs Persons States Forget Happened Clean Innocence Slate

Author:A.S.A. Harrison

“You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.”

Persons Coming Out

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Long Wind Shadow Glorious Autumn Frost Long Shadows

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.”

Needs Giving Morning Gratitude Credit Thanks Saving Waking Every Morning Outlets

Book:The Silent Wife

Source: The Silent Wife

About the Author

Born: 1948
Died: April 14, 2013
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 17

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