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“Consumption,” Truman would say, his mouth full of popcorn. “People died of it long ago and still do today, only it’s different.”
― Kim Heacox, Jimmy Bluefeather

“He said, “What is your job as a writer of fiction?” And she said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do. A”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that’s what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“The truth was, I did not care much for opinions.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends