The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.
It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play _ the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life _ its facility, its use.
Fiction and the Figures of Life
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It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play _ the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life _ its facility, its use.
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