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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you might hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.”
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“Books are Doors and I wanted out.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“There is no beauty without ugliness, and no enjoyment without suffering; we have to have the shade in order to see the light, and that is all I do in a story, put my characters in the shade--and try before the ending, to have them in the sunlight.... My novels are based on dreams, and situations taken from my own life, in which I change the pattern so that what might have happened actually does happen--and therein lies the tale.”
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“People expect me to be cynical because of my job,' Gamache found himself saying, 'but they don't understand. It's exactly as you've said. I spend my days looking into the last room in the house, the one we keep barred and hidden even from ourselves. The one with all our monsters, fetid and rotting and waiting. My job is to find people who take lives. And to do that I have to find out why. And to do that I have to get into their heads and open that last door. But when I come out again,' he opened his arms in an expansive movement, 'the world is suddenly more beautiful, more alive, more lovely than ever. When you see the worst you appreciate the best.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
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