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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.


Peter Straub


#boredom #everything #expire #i #out

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.


Peter Straub


#apparent #authority #call #could #events

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.


Peter Straub


#again #because #better #characters #doubt

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.


Peter Straub


#appointment #back #bedtime #bit #days

Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.


Cassandra Clare


#simon-lewis #angels

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.


Peter Straub


#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.


Peter Straub


#agreed #books #childhood #days #effects

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.


David Friedrich Strauss


#consciousness #evident #god #him #human

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.


David Friedrich Strauss


#birth #cast #christ #doubts #eternal

The world ultimately is what we say it is.


David Friedrich Strauss


#ultimately #world






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