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Doesn't matter what anyone else would call it, Len," he says. "This is our story to tell."
This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly.
You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling what
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― The Sky Is Everywhere
― The Sky Is Everywhere

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What dangerous machines letters are. Perhaps it is as well that they are going out of fashion. A letter can be endlessly reread and reinterpreted, it stirs imagination and fantasy, it persists, it is red-hot evidence. It was a long time since I had received anything resembling a love letter.
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― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince