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"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

"My life is my book, but I can't read it."

"The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in."

"We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."

"Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds."

"This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details."

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
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