Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Writing fiction helps us make sense of life and understand ourselves and others better.
In this quote, Octavia E. Butler expresses the transformative power of fiction writing. She suggests that through storytelling, we can impose a sense of order on the chaos of real life and create complex characters, providing insights into human nature that may elude us in our everyday interactions. Writing becomes a means of exploring deeper truths and connections within ourselves and between people.
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WritingFictionCharacterOrderHumanity
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Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of storytelling in literature.
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