"The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable."

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Kate Zambreno

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“Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.”
“The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.”
“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”
“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”

Source : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press
“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.”
“Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.”
“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.63, Random House

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