"It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting."

-- Sasa Stanisic

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“That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.”

Source : Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.
“About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
“I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.”
“People are irrational - and predictably so.”
“People are very nice to me, and they've been nice as my career has gotten better and I've gotten more jobs. But the reality is that if I decided tomorrow that I didn't want to act anymore, it's not like people are going to be like, 'Please, come back!'”
“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”
“Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.”
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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