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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of…
— Ivan Panin
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You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa,…
— Theda Bara
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no…
— Plutarch
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no…
— Plutarch
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Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
— Neal Shusterman
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Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch…
— Scott Snyder
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