If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.William Gass
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion
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Works of art are my objects of worship. They are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled.
William Gass
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
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