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“They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to discover that these things, when verbalized, were only life-sized after all.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

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“Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

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“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

tags: imagination, life

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“She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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“...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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