Katie Roiphe quotes
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“Facebook is the novel we are all writing”
-- Katie RoipheSource : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.155, Canongate Books
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“In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.”
-- Katie RoipheSource : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.61, Canongate Books
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“She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.”
-- Katie RoipheSource : Katie Roiphe (2007). “Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939”, p.70, Dial Press
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“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams
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“Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.”
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