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“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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