English 12

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

 - Joan Didion

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“The truth is, if we don’t write our own stories, there is someone else waiting to do it for us. And those people, waiting with their pens, often don’t look like we do and don’t have our best interests in mind.”

- Hanif Abdurraqib

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“To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.”

- Alexander Chee

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

- James Baldwin