Sarah Caudwell quotes
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“...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”
-- Sarah CaudwellSource : Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.18, Dell
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“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”
-- Sarah CaudwellSource : Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.180, Dell
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“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.”
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“One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.”
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.
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“In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.”
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“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
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“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
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