"...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction."

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Source : Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.18, Dell

Sarah Caudwell

#Want Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Reader Quotes

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”

Source : "Flow: For Love of Water". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.”
“I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.”
“You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.”
“The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts”
“We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.”
“I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.”
“I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.”

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