Paul Bloom The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept – and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears. – Paul Bloom Characters Quotes Charles Quotes Death Quotes Dickens Quotes Emotions Quotes Fiction Quotes Harry Quotes Jk Quotes Led Quotes Nell Quotes People Quotes Potter Quotes Real Quotes Rowlings Quotes Series Quotes Tears Quotes Triggered Quotes Wept Quotes Wrote Quotes Imagination is Reality Lite – a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.
Elinor LipmanRomantic An early editor characterized my books as ‘romantic comedy for intelligent adults.’ I think people see them as funny but kind. I don’t set out to write either funny or kind, but it’s a voice they like, quirky like me… And you know, people like happy endings. – Elinor Lipman
Abhinav Shukla We live in a society where people will watch erotic stuff and then pass comments on it. – Abhinav Shukla
Rodney Stark There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did. – Rodney Stark
Kathryn Harrison I’m not an investigative journalist; I don’t track crime or police blotters. – Kathryn Harrison
Chinua Achebe The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. – Chinua Achebe
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