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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. - Quote by Patrick Ness

People see stories everywhere…We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn’t true…We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.

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