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“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenants Woman ”
“Whatevers eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”
“He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: This is as amusing as a novel.”
“If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.”
“A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.”
“Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs”
“this is very important, so listen carefully. As I told you before, there is no middle ground with me. You take either all of me or nothing. Thats the way it works. If you dont mind continuing the w...”
“The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and itdoesn't have to be very big - is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what doyou get? Silence. You look for silence, but...”
“As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”
“Mark Twin”
“In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.”
“Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though th...”
“Its good to go off and write a novel, but dont stop doing writing practice.”
“Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of ...”
“The wind stirs through the trees, it moves the leaves, and it sways the branchesand yet it is unseen. The sound of it is detected, the effect of it is noticed, and yet it itself is unseen. In a way...”
“The Intellectual Transcending Equation In Life:Occurrence Plus Perception Minus MaterialisticReasoning Divided By Nothing Equals SpiritualProgression, With A Remainder Of Blessings.”
“The people inside were in intense worship; it seemed to Sarah like they were in another world or something. The pleasantness in the atmosphere drew her in. She felt welcomed, even though she had no...”
“Tess passed by the Churchs sign, and then made the turn right. Her expectations for a degree of improvement were met with passed echoes of indecisive hand claps from mental bodied insecurities that...”
“And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.”
“And now Nineteen persons having been hang'd, and one prest to death, and Eight more condemned, in all Twenty and Eight, of which above a third part were Members of some of the Churches of N. Englan...”
