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> [In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/in-american-fiction-belief-is-like-that-belief-as-upbringing-belief/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

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## More by Paul Elie

> [“BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/bach-a-colossal-syllable-one-which-makes-composers-tremble-brings/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

> [And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/and-what-is-the-problem-it-is-the-old-problem-of-the-anxious-searcher/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

> [“We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/we-come-to-life-in-the-middle-of-stories-that-are-not-ours/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

> [“hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of art. An”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/hand-here-was-a-catholic-counterpart-to-brooks-and-warren-shifting/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

> [In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/in-american-fiction-belief-is-like-that-belief-as-upbringing-belief/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

> [“life lived in search of God is real life, the only life worth living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-elie/life-lived-in-search-of-god-is-real-life-the-only-life-worth-living/)

[Paul Elie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-elie/)

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