Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor dont know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor dont know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. – Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when youre alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley