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"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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"I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,..."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"I just started watching KingDom Hospital series by Stephen King - Pretty Interesting Film. I just continue watching the series 11.22.63 incrediable film. It's wonderful that you can go in the past, who doesn't want to do this?"
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"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."
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"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."
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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
Fiction
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
Life
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
Identity
"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
History
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
Politics
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
History
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
Interest
"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."
Fiction
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
Literature
"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."
History
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