Episodes Exist

Famous quotes containing the words episodes and/or exist:

“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars’ fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
—Anna Magnani (1918–1973)