Exploring Quote by Morris Gleitzman

“It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.”

Morris Gleitzman

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Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

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