So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

~ Mindee Arnett

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I am real. This”–he put his other hand over the first-“is real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, don’t you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happen. I am real.”“But-but what if this whole place”-I had to suck in air again-“what if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you-what if you’re not real because nothing is real?”“If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?

~ Francesca Zappia

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Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

~ Anthony Liccione

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She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

~ Anna Funder

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