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“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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