Strength Quote by William Trevor

““It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.””

William Trevor

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“She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.”

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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

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“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists…

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“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s a piece…

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“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say, “Well, it works like this: A plus B equals C,” and then you’re absolutely, perfectly lost. You have to take the chance! You’re gambling all the time, sometimes with no idea if a story works. But the alarming…

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“He was an old hand at the Camp now, his hollow countenance and the intensity of his averted gaze familiar to all who came and went around him. Some had carried to other camps a description of his lanky, quiet presence, had spoken of his strangeness, his regular, lone attendance before the chapel statue. He had made no friends, but…

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“Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?”

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“Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become…

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Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

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“The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”

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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

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“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.”

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“I met Suffering on a quiet road, just as the sun was setting behind me. Its presence was heavy, like an old coat I had worn for too long. It walked beside me, its voice a whisper carried by the wind. "I know your name," it murmured. "I've been with you for years, through the nights you couldn’t sleep, through…

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