"What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality."

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Elizabeth Bowen

#Truth Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?”
“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”

Source : "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you're crazy if you don't get in on this. So it's very human.”
“I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.”
“It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.”
“It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.”
“The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.”
“If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”

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