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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993
― The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Faust, First Part
― Faust, First Part
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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