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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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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we…
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…
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Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown…
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When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise,…
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved
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When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute…
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
— Sophocles
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There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's…
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What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a…
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They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
— Tim O'Brien
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They say that a great sorceress lives in these woods. An Elf witch of terrible power. All who look upon her fall…
— Lord Of The Rings
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