"We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published."

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Source : "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

Jay McInerney

#Hearing Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Music is the key to the female heart.”
“...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.”
“Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.”

Source : Isaac Ambrose (1737). “Prima, media, & ultima: the first, middle, and last things, in three treatises : wherein is set forth, I. The doctrine of regeneration or the new birth, II. The practice of sanctification, in the meanes, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, III. Certain meditations of [brace] mans misery in his [brace] life, death, judgement, & execution, gods mercy in our [brace] redemption & salvation”
“Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.”
“One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”
“Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.”
“Missing your loved ones is really tough.”
“I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you write. You sit down and you're thinking things and dreaming things and someone says something and you think "Ah!" That's how it happens. Intention is not part of the game.”

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