The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
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Don DeLillo
The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.
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Julian Barnes
The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
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Camilla Gibb
The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.
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Derek Thompson
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on...
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Jodi Picoult
More Quotes By Arthur Helps
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
