Novels Tell Us The Most Truth About

But Then You Begin To Understand That The Reward Of Merit Is Not Life’s Business.

I'm A Novelist, So I Can't Write About Ideas Unless They're Attached To People.

History Isn't The Lies Of The Victors, As I Once Glibly Assured Old Joe Hunt; I Know That Now. It's More The Memories Of The Survivors, Most Of Whom Are Neither Victorious Or Defeated.

And Yet It Takes Only The Smallest Pleasure Or Pain To Teach Us Time’s Malleability.

[flaubert] Didn’t Just Hate The Railway As Such; He Hated The Way It Flattered People With The Illusion Of Progress. What Was The Point Of Scientific Advance Without Moral Advance? The Railway Would Merely Permit More People To Move About, Meet And Be Stupid Together.