“If Catholic literature has a central theme, it is the difficult journey of the sinner toward redemption”
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
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Kenzaburō Ōe (1935) Japanese author
Conversations with History interview (1999)
Context: Literature must be written from the periphery toward the center, and we can criticize the center. Our credo, our theme, or our imagination is that of the peripheral human being. The man who is in the center does not have anything to write. From the periphery, we can write the story of the human being and this story can express the humanity of the center, so when I say the word periphery, this is a most important creed of mine.
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 220)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, in Chapter 15 "To the Ice"
See also https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hemingways-stolen-quotati_b_6868994.
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Variant: It is good to have an end to a journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
“Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
The Stubborn Structure, p. 84
"Quotes"
“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”
Nadeem Aslam (1966) British writer
Source: The Wasted Vigil
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone
“If it be heaven toward which we journey, it will be holiness in which we delight”
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) British academic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
Context: If it be heaven toward which we journey, it will be holiness in which we delight; for if we cannot now rejoice in having God for our portion, where is our meetness for a world in which God is to be all in all forever and forever?