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Dorothy supposes if you were omniscient, writing down what you knew would be as good as doing anything else.
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“People can feel freed by these stories, but they can also get stuck in them.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
“We saw our authentic selves residing only in the abstract realms of art, creation, and beauty--an interior space of thought and private feeling.”
― Easy Beauty
― Easy Beauty
“My father understood a good story is a circle that finds the hero back where they started, but with new knowledge. He wanted this to be true. He also knew a good story ended with the hero realizing the world was bigger than he thought, bigger than himself. But the hero can't realize this until he returns home, and my father didn't have a model in his life for the return, only the quest, so he couldn't write the story because he could never get to the ending.”
― Easy Beauty
― Easy Beauty
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