"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there is no end."
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As quoted in "A Ghost Haunts the Tokyo Olympics" in Electric Literature (24 July 2020)
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