"Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living."

-- Jean Rhys

#Goes On Quotes #Able Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Does truth have a moral?”
“Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.”
“The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.”
“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.835, Library of America
“Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.”
“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
“The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.”

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