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“There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it too deeply. We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. - American Gods, Coming to America” — Neil Gaiman
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique
and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before,
and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it too deeply. We build a shell around it,
like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with
smooth pearl layers in order to cope. - American Gods, Coming to America