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4391 Novelist Quotes

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

Alone Become Inside Less
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Alarm Cause Cultures Deeper
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Between Contemporary Descendants Differences
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TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

Agenda Because Real Sole
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admire Art Become Creative
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Art Brings Depend Good
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

About Being Fiction Human
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

Beings Fact Half Human
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Art Exploring Fiction Human
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

Changes Idea Keen Life
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Becomes Eyes God Over
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Bleeding Good Like Looks
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Apart Flaws Great Irony
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Come Course Fact Kind
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

First writing Human being Drawing
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Life is too short to be lived badly.

Life Short Lived badly
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To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

Speak Behind Other's back Ventilator
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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Fear Makes us Lose Conscience
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One can forgive but one should never forget.

Can forgive Never forget
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Nothing worse Saying goodbye Dying
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Feel sorry Misfortunes Supportable Crossed
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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Afraid Analysis Reflection Fear paralyzes
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In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Every religion Same extremists
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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

The cowardice People Dictators Chance
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Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Culture Education Weapons Fundamentalism
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Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Arrived Conclusion Educate oneself
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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Understood Grandmother meant Comfortable Never
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The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.
The revolution Bicycle Turn It falls
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Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Religion Defending Physical integrity Fashion
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Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Prosperity Two things Tea A meal
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Love is the opposite of good sense.
Love Opposite Good sense
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Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh...

Life hangs Slender Thread
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The key to wisdom is doubt!

Key to Wisdom Doubt
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War always takes you by surprise.
War Takes you Surprise
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Good deal Too strange Believed Happened
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Spoke Mutual feeling Pretty phrases Warm expressions
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Happiness Occasional episode General drama Pain
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Beauty The thing Symbolized
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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

People Marrying Resist Natural forces
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Woman Define Feelings Language
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

Ladies Guard against Read novels Tell them
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Woman Can see Distance Man
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I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
One thing This life Love you Keep wanting
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

An offense Truth Better Concealed
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

The beauty Character Achievements Aims
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Man's silence Wonderful Listen
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our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Our impulses Too strong Judgement sometimes
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
Hobble Being alive Serious
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

Little sun Soul Some dream Affection
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