"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence". E.M. Foster, 1879-1970: A Passage to India, 1924
"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't...Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own." Julian Barnes, 1946 -, Flaubert's parrot, 1984
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