Lucy Doyle

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore