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“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried