"Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Ideas Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.”
“Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

Source : "The English Patient". Book by Anthony Minghella, 1996.
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
“If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.”
“She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose.”
“Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.”
“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Nov 10, 2011
“As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.”

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