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William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life

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Quotes by William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life

"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use."