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Unfounded optimism or necessary motivation to go on ?
By tehconi | December 29, 2006
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
– Joan Didion once wrote, to explain the unfounded optimism human beings display. Good stories make the world more bearable. Inevitably, therefore, we want to tell - and be told - stories that make us feel better, even if that means that we don’t get as complete a picture we need.
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