"personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences."

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Source : Antonio Tabucchi (2002). “Requiem: A Hallucination”, p.99, New Directions Publishing

Antonio Tabucchi

#People Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.”
“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?”
“Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way”
“Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.”
“Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.”

Source : "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.
“Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.”

Source : "Andrew Forrest, chief executive of Fortescue Metals". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 15, 2010.
“The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.”

Source : Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics

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