And now you’ll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won’t be false, and they won’t be true,
but they’ll be real.Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American poet
“The First Time Percy Came Back,” A Thousand Mornings (2012)
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The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“On Being an American” (1), Prejudices: Third Series (1922)
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Death,” Essays, No. 2 (1625)
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DREAM: Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist
Sandman, Book 3. Dream Country, # 19 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1990)
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