Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's the little things that make big things happen.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
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James Frey
Remembering this: weak faith is still faith. Little faith is still faith Pr. Paddick Van Zyl
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Eleanor Catton
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.
For Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music
The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.
The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light–grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.
