#opening

First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now. ↗

— Jonathan Evison

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That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. ↗

— Christopher Moore

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ↗

— George Orwell

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It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#opening-up #perception #perception

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

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Who is John Galt? ↗

— Ayn Rand

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If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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