“There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
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“There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”— Stephen Hawking
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”— Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall
Have you ever really thought about how when you look at the moon, it’s the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and Van Gogh and Cleopatra looked at.
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