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“It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
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― Collected Fiction
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― Collected Fiction
“Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.”
― The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
― The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.”
― Collected Fiction
― Collected Fiction
“I suppose looking back on life, anyone's life, it amounts to this – everything that diverges from one's aim is a bloody waste of time, except as respite making you less lonely.”
― Collected Fiction
― Collected Fiction
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often worked off paper first. The pace of narrative and interest in character do not readily help the writer's hand to set down a sentence of that order. For though characters must take things in their own stride – somewhere in his story the writer cannot hold back this sentence that judges them. He wants it unobtrusive to his pace and the characters that caused him to write. The difficulty is to judge without seeming to be there, with a finality in the words that will make them casual and part of the story itself, except perhaps to another age.”
― Collected Fiction
― Collected Fiction
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