Sarah Caudwell famous quotes
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...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
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The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.
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You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.
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One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.
-- Sarah Caudwell
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I don't inflict horrors on readers.
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Every text assumes a reader.
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Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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