three quotes

The best weapons are the stories and every time the story is told, something changes. Every time the story is retold, something changes.

- Sherman Alexie

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I feel like various dead writers are dear friends of mine — from Woolf to Plath to Duras to DFW — their lives and lessons and warnings and urgings are constantly informing my own, challenging my own.

- Suzanne Scanlon

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 I am all the book remembers of itself.

- Mary Ruefle