Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

Anonymous
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Human nature has always been for us to try to make life seem like fiction. We love to imagine our life with all its ups and downs to be just like the characters in a novel. We try to think about our own lives in the same way that we think about fictional characters, but that is impossible.

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