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Quote by Francine Prose

“I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.”

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Francine Prose is an American author born on April 1, 1947. Her works span across various genres including novels, non-fiction, and children's literature, known for her unique literary style and profound insights. more

“Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction”

World Way Years Looks Country Moments Remember Fiction Novel Generations Universal Poetic Defining Examination Landmarks Coma Beijing Defining Moments

Author:Tash Aw

“Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.”

Doe Next Lost Water Novel Talent Horror Negative Guests Lost Love Protagonists Great Novels Mrs Dalloway Zola Apotheosis

Author:Charlotte Mendelson

“I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.”

Years Financial Journalist

Author:Peter Brimelow

“I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.”

Thinking Want Children Bigs House White Taxes Workers White House Guests Big Business

Author:Peter Brimelow

“I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”

Way Two Different Silence Heard Feminism Conflict Hundred Female Feminist Instance Variation Piety Victimhood

Book:Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

“How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?”

People Knows Doe Path Claims Misery

Book:Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

“The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.”

Men Humans Ideas Law Ability Existence Strikes Complexity Capture Appetite Liberated Human Existence Whim Complexity Of Human

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.”

Theater Marriage Equality

Author:Suzanne Brockmann

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