This quote by Clive James talks to the power of fiction to catch the essence of life without the ordinary details. Fiction enables us to experience the low and high of life without needing to withstand the tiresome minutes in between. It permits us to check out the depths of human feeling and experience the happiness as well as sorrows of life without needing to slog with the ordinary minutes. Fiction is a means to experience life in a compressed type, with the dull bits omitted. It permits us to check out the complexities of life without having to experience the monotony that typically comes with it. Fiction is a means to experience life in an extra meaningful means, without having to sustain the dull minutes.
This quote is written / told by Clive James somewhere between October 7, 1939 and today. He was a famous Author from Australia.
The author also have 8 other quotes.
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"
