"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.“
-Milan Kundera
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