All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.
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Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.
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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
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Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.
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