"The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say."

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Source : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

Isobelle Carmody

#Lying Quotes #Suggestions Quotes #Doe Quotes

“It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.”
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
“Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press
“Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.193, Penguin
“Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.”
“Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.”
“Everyone is beautiful to someone.”

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