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"The world is full of stories, but the best ones are the ones we live."
The dead are never really gone, they live on in the stories we tell about them.
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Grief is a private thing. It takes as long as it takes.
"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"Stories have the power to change how we see ourselves and others."
"I wanted to write about the Windrush generation because their story is part of British history, but it's a story that hasn't been told enough."