"Stories are a different kind of true."

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Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

Emma Donoghue

#Writing Quotes #Different Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.”
“The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.”
“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth”
“Never be the brightest person in the room.”

Source : James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk, February 2005.
“We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.”
“Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.”
“I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.”
“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”

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