"The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Truth Quotes #Eye Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important.... The work is about the system.”
“My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I donâ€™t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.”
“Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.”
“It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.”
“Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.”
“In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”
“A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.”
“The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.”

Source : Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.232, Springer

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