Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
Interpretation
Literature allows us to discover and understand deeper truths about human experience.
This quote by Stephen Fry emphasizes the significant role of literature in revealing truths that may not be accessible through other means. It suggests that through stories, poetry, and essays, literature provides insights into the human condition and the world around us, making it a vital tool for understanding diverse perspectives and experiences.
In practice
During a book club meeting discussing the impact of literature on society.
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
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