"Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Akhil Sharma

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Here, in memory, we live and die.”
“Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.”
“I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.”
“Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.”
“If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.”

Source : Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company
“When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.”
“When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.”

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