Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable…
…a lot of people don’t like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don’t mind telling you so. “If he’d just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…”
—from “The Temptations of St. Anthony,” by Donald Barthelme
Tags: humor fiction short-story sainthood
He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.
Rebecca BertoTags: love romance literature relationships fiction new-adult
I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life.
Kenneth J. EsterTags: fantasy fiction warriors demon-siege-trilogy
In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses pulp elements: one-dimensional macho protagonists, preposterous methods of murder, hordes of cardboard gangsters, dialogue full of whiny insults, blistering fast action. But even in some of his earliest crime stories one finds aspects of noir, and over time the stream works itself pure.
In mature Woolrich the world is an incomprehensible place where beams happen to fall, and are predestined to fall, and are toppled over by malevolent powers; a world ruled by chance, fate and God the malign thug. But the everyday life he portrays is just as terrifying and treacherous. The dominant economic reality is the Depression, which for Woolrich usually means a frightened little guy in a rundown apartment with a hungry wife and children, no money, no job, and desperation eating him like a cancer. The dominant political reality is a police force made up of a few decent cops and a horde of sociopaths licensed to torture and kill, whose outrages are casually accepted by all concerned, not least by the victims. The prevailing emotional states are loneliness and fear. Events take place in darkness, menace breathes out of every corner of the night, the bleak cityscape comes alive on the page and in our hearts.
("Introduction")
Tags: fiction crime police noir pulp cop the-great-depression cornell-woolrich
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard KiplingIt's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
Brandon MullIf the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!
I.R. ShankarTags: romance fiction novels i-r-shankar
Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.
Amy NeftzgerTags: truth reality stories fiction fables real tales
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
Brandon MullTags: imagination fantasy fiction creativity
In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!
Chetan BhagatTags: fiction
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