It’s funny that I’ve gone from hating pop psychology to being way too Freudian. I can see all my fears and desires in it. Ones I could never give in to because I was deep in the church and I was a super-suppressed gay dude.
~ Marlon James
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Mostly when people think of sophisticated Africa, they think of Egypt. And even that they attribute to aliens.
~ Marlon James
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African folklore is just so lush. There’s something so relentless and sensual about African mythology.
~ Marlon James
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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
~ Marlon James
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The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people’s treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Serious reflexion about one’s own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him.
~ Iris Murdoch
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~ Iris Murdoch
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