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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense. ↗

— Peter Cameron

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We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective. ↗

— Toba Beta

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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Distance lends enchantment to the view. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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All stories are true. But some of them never happened. ↗

— James A. Owen

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For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

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