

“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha

“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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