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“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”

Thinking Stories Literature Loss Identity Framework

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.”

Humans Literature Individual Loss Areas Rate Invention Contact Faster Elsewhere Competing Human Inventions

Author:Jared Diamond

“I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.”

Humans War Reality Young Suffering Literature Loss Race Reader Destruction Plant Hunger Seeds Neglect Harsh Stubborn Famine Children's Literature Harsh Reality

Book:Read for Your Life #21

Source: Read for Your Life #21

“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

Kind Order Turns Literature Loss Meaningful Remedy

Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“I loved Rushmore. I loved the script. I mean, that is what drew me to it, just the actual piece of literature the script is. But I never thought in a million years that anyone would see it or respond to it. It was an absolute joy that it was so loved and continues to be. The same with The Sixth Sense. I thought, "No one's going to watch this. Bruce Willis hasn't got a gun. There's no shagging. Lovely story, sweet and profound about loss and death, but no one's going to watch this."”

Mean Joy Literature Loss Sweet Gun Profound Lovely Sixth Sense

Author:Olivia Williams

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”

Children Literature Loss Dear Console Her Beauty Loving Children

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”

May Father Literature Loss Son Bears Despair Inheritance Father Son Equanimity Lost Friendship

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”

Men Years Two Literature Memories Loss Tears Mets Graves Two Years Strife Foe Weeping

Author:Jean Paul

“In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”

“The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.”

Want Writing Film Literature Loss Pleasure Levels Risk Danger Perfection Theater Musical Flight Imperfection Engagement Execution Margins Tangible Implicit Best Literature

Author:Julio Cortazar