“How does one say something new and not retell?”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“New Word,” p. 69
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”
— Lisa Unger, book Beautiful Lies
Source: Beautiful Lies
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