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“He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast vulgar, and meretricious beauty ... and to this conception he was faithful to an end.”
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“I love these little things, this pointillist approach to verisimilitude, the correction of detail that cumulatively gives such satisfaction.”
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“What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
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“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
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“Verleugnen ist eine unscheinbare Varianten des Verrats. Von außen ist nichts zu sehen, ob einer verleugnet oder nur Diskretion übt, Rücksicht nimmt, Peinlichkeiten und Ärgerlichkeiten meidet. Aber der, der sich nicht bekennt, weiß es genau.”
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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
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