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“Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.”

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell is a British novelist known for his unique narrative techniques and profound humanistic concerns. His works often blend humor, satire, and philosophical thinking, winning him a wide audience. more

“[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.”

May Two Life Is Sides My Own Perfect Written Terrible Opposites Comic Two Things Coins

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.”

World Way Writing Said Use Christian Found Belief Fiction Moral Seeing Heard Mystery Judgement Dramatic Dogma Storyteller Hindrance Moral Judgement

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”

Men Giving Poor Levels Rich Sacrifice Rich Man Poor Man

Book:True Blue

Source: True Blue

“Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.”

Might Stars Dark Sun Moon Dropping

Book:Undercover

Source: Undercover

“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.”

Genuine Ripple Merging Genuine Life

Book:Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak

Source: Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak

“There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.”

Needs Choices Loss Wonderful Regret Return Longing Inevitable

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.”

Ifs Knows Looks Too Much Doors Window Overcoming Crowds Ghost Horde Barricades

Book:By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”

Thinking Trouble

Book:The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)

Source: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)

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