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- Author Iris Murdoch
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The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a nouvelle, now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be 'true in a way'. I trust this passing reflection will not lead anyone to doubt the truth of any part of this story! When I come to describe my life with Clement Makin credulity will be strained but will I hope not fail!
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- Author Garth Risk Hallberg
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Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the point of insanity.
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- Author Gregory Blake Smith
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One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.
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- Author Dorothea Lasky
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I will fill the poems with great pain
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- Author Dexter Palmer
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That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of her.''Yeah, but that Dexter couldn't shut his piehole either,' Marlon says. 'I mean, Christ. Artists and writers—let them kill each other off in cage matches; let God sort 'em out.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?
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