“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”
Scott Turow book Ordinary Heroes
Source: Ordinary Heroes
“You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm — we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish — ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.”
A Joy for Ever, lecture II, section 74 (1857).
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Tommy Orange book There There
There There (2018)
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"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
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