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My strongest memory is not a memory. It’s something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had happened.
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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