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“Novels aren’t about heroes. They’re about us. The novel is a literary form that arose at the same time as the middle class in Europe, those people of small business and property who are neither peasant nor aristocrat, and it has always treated of the middle class. Both lyric and epic poetry grew out of a time that was elitist, a time that believed in the innate rate of royalty to rule and the rest of us to amount to not very much. Hardly surprising, then, that both forms lean toward the aristocratic in subject matter and treatment. The novel, on the other hand, isn’t about them; it’s about us.”
― How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
― How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
“So it seems the case that plenty of everyday people are in deed 'hate-filled' (but it's unreleased) - the beast within is caged - until they unleash it, this secret, in 'agreement', on some common foe, and though like a freer bill, the pay is still rage.”
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“I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
“The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.”
― Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
― Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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