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“The Russians, when I found them a few years later, worked on me in the same way. They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it’s very hard to endure the not having.”
― Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History