"It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else."

- novelist Robert Harris

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"BE KIND, FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING A GREAT BATTLE."

- Philo of Alexandria

(Thanks to Laurel Beyer for sending me that quotation!)