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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
6ed0134	"You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up."	meta science-fiction	Philip K. Dick
48344d3	"I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare."	shakespeare funny meta	Ellen Raskin
0763327	Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.	meta	Agatha Christie
2f2aaa6	Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.	identity truth digital-identity digitalization network social-media meta internet	Robin Wasserman
d71b68e	"It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife."	opening narrator the-black-prince iris-murdoch dramatic narrative meta storytelling	Iris Murdoch
8655b16	"Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Bronte . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Bronte girls."	humor deanna-raybourn lady-julia-grey silent-on-the-moor wuthering-heights the-brontes meta jane-eyre emily-bronte	Deanna Raybourn
4753e09	I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a , now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.	writer writing the-black-prince iris-murdoch struggling meta plot	Iris Murdoch
5d70777	Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble common sense comes to one's aid. For most people common sense moral sense. But you seem to have deliberately excluded this modest source of light. Ask yourself, what really happened between whom all those years ago? You've made it into a story, and stories are false.	story reality the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch the-past meta memory	Iris Murdoch
2a6306c	Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.	narrator the-black-prince iris-murdoch self-deprecating narrative meta	Iris Murdoch
103d7ad	You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.	truth reliability unreliable-narrator the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes meta truthfulness	Julian Barnes

6ed0134

"You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up."

meta science-fiction

Philip K. Dick

48344d3

"I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare."

shakespeare funny meta

Ellen Raskin

0763327

Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.

meta

Agatha Christie

2f2aaa6

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

identity truth digital-identity digitalization network social-media meta internet

Robin Wasserman

d71b68e

"It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife."

opening narrator the-black-prince iris-murdoch dramatic narrative meta storytelling

Iris Murdoch

8655b16

"Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Bronte . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Bronte girls."

humor deanna-raybourn lady-julia-grey silent-on-the-moor wuthering-heights the-brontes meta jane-eyre emily-bronte

Deanna Raybourn

4753e09

I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a , now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.

writer writing the-black-prince iris-murdoch struggling meta plot

Iris Murdoch

5d70777

Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble common sense comes to one's aid. For most people common sense moral sense. But you seem to have deliberately excluded this modest source of light. Ask yourself, what really happened between whom all those years ago? You've made it into a story, and stories are false.

story reality the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch the-past meta memory

Iris Murdoch

2a6306c

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

narrator the-black-prince iris-murdoch self-deprecating narrative meta

Iris Murdoch

103d7ad

You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.

truth reliability unreliable-narrator the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes meta truthfulness

Julian Barnes