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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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It's A Terrible Thing That Your Life

Salman Rushdie
It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. if i got any comfort as i set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. he's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. if the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. and if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' mr. okamoto: 'that's an interesting question?' mr. chiba: 'the story with animals.' mr. okamoto: 'yes. the story with animals is the better story.' pi patel: 'thank you. and so it goes with god.
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. he realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. he hadn't mapped out a story for his family. and so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. in the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “other than terrible, i mean.” he moved his head slightly to the side. it seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? more terrible? less terrible?” he made no response. “the same amount of terrible?
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Every time i get happy the nana-hex comes through. birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
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He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. but that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. that might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
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