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| 509a324 | And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. | perks-of-beng-a-wallflower realistic-fiction stephen-chbosky | Stephen Chbosky | |
| a5965e2 | Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. When first he united his life with hers and donned civilian clothes, he felt the delight of freedom in general, such as he had not before known, and also the freedom of love--he was contented then, but not for long. Soon he felt rising in his soul a desire for desires--boredom. Involuntarily he began to snatch at every passing caprice, mistaking it for a desire and a purpose. | society-novel russian-literature realistic-fiction novel | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3df2589 | The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater. | writer writing christian-writers novelist realistic-fiction writers-on-writing perspective perception perception-of-reality realism | Flannery O'Connor |