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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

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Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

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The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. ...more

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There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the...more

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There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy...more

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Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck o...more

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Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under it...more