“Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.”
“Longing on a large scale makes history.”
“The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ”
“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
“the unbearable persistence of hope”