Dara Horn Quotes

• Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

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  Children, Memories, Past

  Dara Horn (2015). “The World to Come”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

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  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

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  Running, Bridges, Iron

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

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  Love You, Agree, Fellows

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• And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.

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  Mother, Thinking, People

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• Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

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  Kindness, Deeds

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