Alice

“I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art.”
― William Trevor

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House