Fiction quotations

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◆ Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

- J.D. Robb99

◆ Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

- L.J. Smith99

◆ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

- Doris Lessing99

◆ The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

- William Goldman99

◆ But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

- Simone Elkeles99

◆ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

- Flannery O'Connor99

◆ I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

- Kim Harrison99

◆ The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

- Robert Jordan99

◆ But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

- Richelle Mead99

◆ If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

- Albert Camus99

◆ Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

- James Joyce99