Jane Austen and Charles Dickens were both masters of comedy, but the contrast between her ironic understatement and his histrionic exaggeration reflects profoundly different personalities and life experiences, in which class and gender played an important part.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please.
~ Charles Dickens
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
~ Albert Camus
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If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
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The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
~ Charles Dickens
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LLMs generate writing probabilistically: After training on billions of texts, they build complex equations to predict which words are most likely to be found together. That process can be traced in the way an LLM tells stories.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus
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By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.
~ Marcel Proust
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~ Mark Twain
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust
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