“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist
Source: Conversations with Don Delillo
“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
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