As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Charles Baxter
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's...
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's...
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's...
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The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, “As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it’s the unhappy ones who create the stories. I’m no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.” The idea is that you don’t have to be unhappy in order to tell an unhappy story. You can experience a happy story without being happy. This quote is a perfect example of the fact that people often create their own happy stories in their heads even when they are not really happy at all.

Source: The Feast Of Love

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