A Quote by Anne Tyler

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened. — © Anne Tyler
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?
Those bombs have brought me immeasurable pain. Even now, some 40 years later, I am still receiving treatment for burns that cover my arms, back, and neck. The emotional and spiritual pain was even harder to endure.
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
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