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“The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.”

Book:The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

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“...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the vast populations of stars unknown to him until then, the riotous glittering in the dark crevices between constellations, a convocation of bright spirits waiting to be found.”

Science Fiction Novel Astronomy

Book:The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

“Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer.”

Science Fiction Novel Astronomy

Author:John Pipkin

“As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water’s surface and it makes perfect sense that these small creatures should be so moved by events beyond their reckoning.”

Science Fiction Novel Astronomy

Book:The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”

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Book:The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

Source: The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

“So we will cover every possibility. We will take turns at the telescope. I will keep watch in the day, and at night you will take my place, and together we will see to it that no part of the sky goes unobserved.”

Science Fiction Novel Astronomy

Book:The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

“Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.”

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Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having heard God's laughter, the agélastes are convinced that the truth is obvious, that all men necessarily think the same thing, and that they themselves are exactly what they think they are. But it is precisely in losing the certainty of truth and the unanimous agreement of others that man becomes an individual. The novel is the imaginary paradise of individuals. It is the territory where no one possesses the truth, neither Anna nor Karenin, but where everyone has the right to be understood, both Anna and Karenin.”

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Book:The Art of the Novel

Source: The Art of the Novel

“Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.”

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Author:Luigina Sgarro

“Todos debemos procurar estar satisfechos allí donde nos encontremos, y más aún en nuestro propio hogar, que es donde más tiempo estamos obligados a permanecer.”

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Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“İblis: "Müzik her ne kadar Hristiyanlık tarafından kullanılıp geliştirilse de, aynı zamanda reddedildi ve şeytani bir alan olarak dışlandı-işte görüyorsun. Müzik fevkalade teolojik bir mesele; tıpkı günah gibi, benim gibi...”

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Book:Doctor Faustus

Source: Doctor Faustus

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