"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

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Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Joseph Joubert

#Anticipation Quotes #Sunlight Quotes

“I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.”
“The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.”
“At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.”
“It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.”
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”

Source : "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
“The best project is one that asks a novel question.”
“It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.”

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