“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”
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“I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.”
“Far more important than your actual ability is what those who follow you believe you can do.”
“We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.”
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