"You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it."

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Alice Mattison

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“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.”
“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”
“He who has Jesus has everything.”
“A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sunâ€”these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.”
“When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.”
“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.”

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