"What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information."
"If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell."
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Source: Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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