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“The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”
― Tony Kushner

“Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
― Ernest Hemingway