“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”

—  Richard Bach

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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American spiritual writer 1936

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