“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.” IfsThinkingShouldHumansKindShowsLiteratureSocialCommonConditionsAwarenessReaderCommitmentNervesManifestTouchingSlipsHuman Condition Author:Bel Kaufman
“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.” WayNeedsFormLyingLiteratureSecretNovelGoneOur LivesAwarenessFlowImportanceDetermineSensitiveSatireSympathyTidesCleansingNew PlacesEbb And FlowRecoilSecret Places Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.” WorldMindLiteratureLinesAwarenessCapableOppositesInsightPassingPassingsPairsDividingComplete Opposites Author:Hermann Hesse
“When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.” WorldHumansStillsSelfLiteratureLosesHuman BeingsAwarenessSelf AwarenessNotionGenderDisappearAbyssPlaces To Go Author:Andrew Cohen
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” HappinessLiteratureAwarenessAcceptanceUnconditional AcceptanceBlind Acceptance Author:George Orwell