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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.”
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“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
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“For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before. ”
― Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
― Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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