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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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― On Writing
― On Writing
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Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.
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― A High Wind in Jamaica
― A High Wind in Jamaica
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