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"Tolstoy is so good at including side characters who both make the world more real (and the relationships in it), and provide a reason for a main character to expand upon their own views beyond internal monologue, by being in dialogue with another. A foil of sorts. Really well done. Inspiring writing in how effective and human it is." — 9 hours, 3 min ago
"Tolstoy is so good at including side characters who both make the world more real (and the relationships in it), and provide a reason for a main character to expand upon their own views beyond internal monologue, by being in dialogue with another. A foil of sorts. Really well done. Inspiring writing in how effective and human it is." — 9 hours, 3 min ago
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― The Bacchae
― The Bacchae
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