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“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows