"It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?"

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Source : Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.261, Spectra

Jeff VanderMeer

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“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
“I don't believe in God, but I miss him.”
“Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.”

Source : "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.
“Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”
“I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.”
“I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.”
“Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.43, Psychology Press
“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across”

Source : Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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