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“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”

Humans Fiction Mystery Concern Human Life Fiction Writers

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.”

World Humans Wells May Lost Given Quality Creative Knowing Mystery Civilization Notes Musical Deeper Human Life Exploration Spontaneous Fitting Epoch Knowing And Doing

Author:George Leonard

“The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.”

Humans Use Lying Language Mystery Human Life Use Of Language

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.”

Humans Death Mystery Profound Human Life Grieving Bereavement Initiation Happy Love

Author:William Ralph Inge

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

Humans Truth Sound Beauty Poverty Mystery Perfection Sight Human Life Contemplation Imperfect Succession Sight And Sound

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.”

Way Humans Ideas Order Mystery Guilt Human Life Disorder Sanity Irrational

Author:P. D. James

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”

Humans Joy Grief Mystery Quiet Human Life Bereavement Brothers Karamazov

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”