"One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it."

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Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scarlett Thomas

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“The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.”
“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”
“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”
“But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.”
“If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu”
“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”
“Do nothing twice over.”
“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

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