"If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear."

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Kathleen Rooney

#Believe Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Choices Quotes

“They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.”
“Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.”
“In the 50,000 years that followedâ€”a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existedâ€”the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.”
“I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.”
“Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.”

Source : Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK
“The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.”
“What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance”
“The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.”

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