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1 " ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. "
― Rabih Alameddine , The Hakawati
2 " My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up. Like when you memorize a poem, and for one small unimportant part you supply your own words. The meaning's the same, the meter's identical. When you read the actual version you can never get it into your head that it's right and you're wrong. "
― Elizabeth McCracken , The Giant's House
