“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a net whereby to catch something else.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.”
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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“If you have a religion it must be cosmic.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
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