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“For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles in life. That is why we read it. To understand, to grow, to believe, to hope. That all the troubles one faces in life can be overcome, eventually.”
― The Monsters We Deserve
― The Monsters We Deserve
“The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“try thinking the same thing by darkness and see how different if feels.”
― The Monsters We Deserve
― The Monsters We Deserve
“Yet every writer worth a good-god damn knows this too, for it is graven into each of us: no one cares for beauty. Not in fiction. Not on its own, not pure, untroubled beauty; not in fiction. [...] For here is the only real difference between the life of reality and the life of fiction. Fiction only works when the beauty is tainted by pain. For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles of life.”
― The Monsters We Deserve
― The Monsters We Deserve
“Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world-- the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley-- ...I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially because now it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What's Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one.”
― The Monsters We Deserve
― The Monsters We Deserve
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