History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

Thomas C. Foster
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  1. Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's.

  2. His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity,...

  3. Real people are made out of a whole lot of things–flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

  4. We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves...

  5. The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

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