Contradiction Quote by Richard Savage

“Given our new situation, I think you should find a more appropriate way to address me Polly. Do so now please.” I don’t even…

— Felicity Brandon

“You will get exactly what you deserve Polly,” comes the firm reply, “you can trust me on that… But if you do – trust…

— Felicity Brandon

“Then you--weren't lovers?" Pollyanna's voice was tragic with dismay. "Never!" "And it isn't all coming out like a book? . . . Oh dear!…

— Eleanor H. Porter

“Even Polly seemed impressed, for he called her a good girl, blessed her buttons, and begged her to "come and take a walk, dear",…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and…

— Mark Helprin

“Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted…

— Mark Twain

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of…

— Miriam Toews

“They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, ‘I’m starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!’ ‘I can’t walk, I’m paralyzed, but still…

— E. Lockhart

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then?…

— John Barth

“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to tell the…

— Virginia Woolf

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for…

— Horace Walpole

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

— Oscar Wilde