The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a ... -Lydia Millet

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

Lydia Millet , Novelist
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Yeah, I mean, having been raised like a Catholic, I have a sort of sympathy for religion, in that I think that religion's religion. It can be bad or g...
There will be no sympathy for Trump from voters if he suffers greatly from COVID-19 and he wouldn't know how to be a sympathetic character anyway....
I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what t...
I had no sympathy with my mum and dad....
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to talk about it. The people suffer...
The infuriating thing about not liking your weight when you're slim is that there's no sympathy and very rarely any help....
Many migrants awaiting asylum hearings in the U.S. never show up for their court dates. And the longer they stay in the U.S., the more sympathy they d...
From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me....
I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them....
I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever ...