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The Art of Fiction

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“if you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true – this is an old idea, of course, it really is nothing new, but you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

tags: literary-fiction, truth

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“Death and life were just adjacent verandas.”
― Salman Rushdie, In the South

tags: death, life-and-death

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“Watching the light now as it broods upon the street, a slow pulsation that gives to sudden clarity then dims, thinking about what lies hidden, seeing that what is revealed in the soft blooming light is the everyday occurring”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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