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Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
– Hugh Howey

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  3. Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don’t know how we got started with subverting that purpose. – Hugh Howey
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  5. Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. – Hugh Howey
  6. If the lies don’t kill you, the truth will. – Hugh Howey
  7. He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they’d taken their course. – Hugh Howey
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  11. Believe in miracles as if there’s no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain. – Val Uchendu
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  14. empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. – Simon BaronCohen
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