Quotes About Perspective

Reading good novels can make almost anything seem imaginable

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith—as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire.

You should listen to these people, Farrokh," his father was telling him. "It isn't necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them.

There's a reason we're fiction writers, you know—real life sucks; make-believe is our business," I try to tell her.

I was four, and I sincerely believe that this is my first memory of life itself – as opposed to what I was told happened, as opposed to the pictures other people have painted for me.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi

Imagining something is better than remembering something

It is occasionally necessary for me to tell Torontonians of the presence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; they tend to think of the Great Lakes as the waters of the world.

Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then

In the company of grown women among whom Jack remembered being a little boy, he was again a child.

a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.

The thing about sin, Jack, is that some people think it's very important and other people don't even believe it exists.

I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.

Jack wouldn't have wanted to be buried there. If you were lying in that graveyard, facing south, you would be looking at an ugly seventeen-story high-rise for the rest of your death.

What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today.

I really like the sex in your novels," Dorothy told him. "I like how you do it." "I like it better," Miriam said to him, giving her daughter an all-knowing look. "I have the perspective to know what really bad sex is," Dorothy's mom told her. "Please, Mother—don't paint us a picture," Dorothy said.

Franny was awful to him, but Franny was not awful; and Frank was not really awful to any of us, except he (himself) was, somehow, awful.

In this world," Franny once observed, "just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.

According to Frank, religion is just another kind of taxidermy.

A cripple's life is one of watching others do what he can't do

Did having a dog make you less political?

Kai yra kur paganyti akis, atsiranda pla?ios perspektyvos ir sielai, <...>.

And more than beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I was thinking, when I looked back—up the nighttime mountain—at the wrecked train, lying in the snow.