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Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with universal radiance. Faithless sons, wars and typhoons, fields of blood, greed and knives: our literature's full of such stories. And yet suppose for an instant that it wasn't the complacent father but his bored daughter who was the Prime Mover; suppose that what came first wasn't an appetite for drama but the urge to awaken it. Mightn't we then permit a single summer in the lives of two bored girls to represent an essential stage in the history of the universe?


Kathryn Davis


#patriarchy #experience

If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.


Cathy Caruth


#freud #literature #psychoanalysis #trauma #experience

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.


Roman Payne


#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human perception, understanding, or attempted control. In essence, it claims a power apart from that with which humans may have imbued it. Even when humanity has lost faith in the possibility of renewal through nature, nature as Hardy describes it fights back, attempting to force human consciousness to acknowledge her power, her ability to transform life.


Shirley A. Stave


#faith

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.


Dejan Stojanovic


#books #dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #faith #literature

We're just like the antiques. We grow old and get scarred and beat up along the way, and the only question becomes whether we're going to make it until we realize what we already have is valuable." --Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale


Lynda Rutledge


#faith

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.


Frank Knight


#difference #differences #goods #higher #low

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.


Katherine Ann Porter


#literacy #reading #family

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily


Deborah McKinlay


#relationships #women-s-literary #family

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon." Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels.


Kevin Hearne


#batman-inuendos #great-swearing #family






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