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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
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“Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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“Is it ignorance if you don’t care to know it?” “Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
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