Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
– Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
Tag: human
Quotable 178
Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.
– Iris Murdoch
Quotable 148
Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.
– David Foster Wallace
#quikfic 20
Evan stared at his cat for hours. The cat acted as though nothing were out of the ordinary, despite the diamond in the litter box.
Quotable 31
Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
– Kurt Vonnegut