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Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel. ↗


— Eudora Welty


#fiction #novels #writing #art

This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting. ↗


— Teresa Flavin


#fantasy #novel #art

it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all. ↗


— Henry Gratton Doyle


#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations

A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#attitude

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either ↗


— Jennifer Donnelly


#french-revolution #ya-novel #beauty

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths. ↗


— Julian Barnes


#beauty

So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running. ↗


— D.D. Chant


#broken-city #funny #humour #novel #beauty

I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground. ↗


— Sylvia Day


#erotica-romance #eva-tramell #gideon-cross #romance-novels #business

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre ↗


— George Orwell


#fiction-novel #philosophical #truth #change

The impatient man of courage is like a premature ejaculation. ↗


— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko


#courage






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