"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream." --Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I love everything I have read by Coelho, and I think that is because I feel like I can get out and accomplish anything after I have read something of his. Coelho intertwines spirituality and self discovery in a way that you can't help but quote him and feel like you want to go on and discover your own Personal Legend.
Stylistically he does this fairly efficiently, simply concentrating on the story's message rather then scene-setting, which I think molds the desire I get to discover these places myself rather than be told about them. He gets straight to the plot in the story however, the dialog is full of anecdotal and abstract theologies which again as the reader I have to interpret and discover for my self.
Paulo Coelho writes in such a way that he sets the frame for us and allows us to interpret and discover the rest for ourselves. This is a hard style to copy, but I can emulate this storytelling when appropriate.
I love this sentence--simple, elegant, thought-provoking. I like it too because we're so used to hearing the opposite, to believing or feeling like we can't accomplish certain things. It amazes me that language can be so simple and straightforward, but so perfect. The phrase "universe conspires" makes what would otherwise be an ordinary sentence into a grand construction that encompasses something greater than the individual. Another example of the power of word choice. Thanks for sharing!
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