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If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

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We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Kristin Cashore

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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. ↗

— John Green

#names #perception #the-fault-in-our-stars #perception

Cal had been waiting for us at the pond. When he’d seen me, he’d given me a barely perceptible nod, which was the Cal version of waving his hands over his head and yelling, “Hey, Sophie! ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

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We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. ↗

— Alan Moore

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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. ↗

— Colin Powell

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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Surely you ain't weak. You just can't accept yourself as a strong person. ↗

— Toba Beta

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