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“For a story was only as good as its villain.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

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“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― James Renner, The Great Forgetting

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“Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

tags: delusions, memory, nostalgia, truth

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“We shouldn't confuse grief over the passing of our favorite technology with resentment because some digital alchemy failed to preserve analog experiences. Whether or not we admit it, the internet and its artifacts are not just like their cultural precedents. They're not even a rough translation -- or a strong misreading -- of those precedents.”
― Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

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