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"For me, a happy ending is never a cop-out. I think the viewer is kind of hard-wired to want romance and a nice ending. It’s such a fundamental human thing. As a viewer, you want that sense of good fortune. People do find love in real life. What’s wrong with that?"

-Stephen Merchant

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"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope."

-Oscar Wilde

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"When I heard that your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying, 'I don’t want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."

-Jonathan Safran Foer

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"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

-G.K. Chesterton

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"For it is not a history we are writing, but lives."

-Plutarch