"The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me."

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Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

Andrew O'Hagan

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“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.”
“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.”
“We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.”
“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source : Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan
“Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.”
“When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.”
“No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.”
“Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.”

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