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“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”
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“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
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“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.”
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“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
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