The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ― Zora Neale Hurston

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Old women can see through walls.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ― Robert Heinlein

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland

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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. ― Brian Selznick

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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ― Walter Tevis

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Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.

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