"No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside."

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Source : "This Week in Fiction: Sam Lipsyte". Interview with illing Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2014.

Sam Lipsyte

#World Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Insight Quotes

“Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.”
“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.”
“The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.”
“Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments.”
“You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.”
“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”

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