Fred
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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
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“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”
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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..”
― I and Thou
― I and Thou
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